This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $489,500 in funding to The Children's Hospital Corporation, doing business as Boston Children's Hospital, to conduct research on early predictors of late talking and primary language impairment (PLI) in young children. The research project aims to trace longitudinal trajectories of electroencephalogram (EEG) features from 2-24 months...
This Project Grant award of $201,250 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA Program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" supports research to examine precursors to language impairment in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project aims to leverage recent advances in remote assessment of infant cognitive development to test three proposed mechanisms underlying language impairment in ASD: atypical speech...
This $2,308,368 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports research to investigate the relationship between visual attention, multimodal communication cues, and expressive language development in typically developing children and those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research, led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will leverage existing datasets and conduct new...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Boston Children's Hospital to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NCS-FO: STUDYING LANGUAGE IN THE BRAIN IN THE MODERN MACHINE LEARNING ERA" from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2025. This award will fund research into studying language acquisition and processing in the brain using modern machine learning techniques, advancing the NSF's STEM Education...
This Project Grant award of $2,361,470 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will support research to identify early auditory and behavioral markers that can predict language development outcomes in infants. The University of Washington will conduct a longitudinal study, following infants at both low and high risk of late language emergence, and measuring their auditory brain responses, auditory and language abilities, and other...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The $1,339,013.47 grant, awarded on August 23, 2024, will fund the "EMERGE: Early Markers of Expressive and Receptive (Language) Growth in Ethnically Diverse Autistic Toddlers" research project. The goal of this study is to understand the measures...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a 5-year, $857,216 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Children's Hospital Corporation (doing business as Boston Children's Hospital) to study the neurodevelopmental trajectories leading to early symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and disruptive behaviors in socioeconomically disadvantaged, racially and ethnically diverse children. The key objectives of this project are to: 1)...
This Project Grant awarded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research to identify optimal electrophysiological markers for predicting developmental outcomes in infants. The $147,037 award to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute will fund a study examining the similarity between resting-state and auditory...
This Federal Project Grant award of $244,154 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under their Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will support research to model individual differences in the temporal dynamics of spoken word recognition in autistic young adults. The research will utilize EEG and machine learning to examine individual differences in the neural and temporal dynamics of spoken word...
The federal Project Grant award of $1,204,102 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will support research on brain structural and functional abnormalities in the executive function network of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The 5-year project, starting on April 10, 2025, aims to use advanced multi-modal MRI methods to comprehensively map...