Project Grant R21DC022336
- This Project Grant award of $461,995.00 from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports a qualitative investigation into the factors that influence families of late-talking children to pursue early communication evaluations before age three. The study, titled "Learning from Success Stories: A Qualitative Investigation of Factors Influencing Families of Late Talkers to Pursue Communication Evaluations Before Age Three", aims to...
- This federal Project Grant award of $415,233 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will leverage existing data and create open data resources to identify patterns and predictors of developmental outcomes in late-talking children. The project, led by the University of Maryland, College Park, will track the written language development of students from grades 6 to 11, both with and without developmental language disorders (DLD), focusing on...
- This federal Project Grant award of $147,486.00, provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the CFDA program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", supports a mixed-methods research study focused on developing culturally responsive caregiver-implemented early language interventions for Latino children in Puerto Rico. The key objectives are to characterize the use of naturalistic language facilitation strategies by...
- This Project Grant award in the amount of $437,479 was provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). The grant will be used by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to leverage a large, longitudinal dataset of 1,667 toddlers, including 552 late talkers, to identify early predictors of divergent language and clinical outcomes at preschool age. The key objectives are to: 1) Analyze 9 common predictors...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $752,048 supports research into early bilingual language development from 2023 to 2027. The award is made under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to further understanding of how young children learn two languages simultaneously. Specifically, the University of California, Davis will examine parent-child interactions in monolingual English and bilingual Spanish-English families of Mexican heritage. Researchers will observe...
- This federal Project Grant award for $442,750, awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), aims to improve how electronic health record (EHR) data is used to study late language emergence (late talking) in children. The grant will employ novel machine learning approaches, such as natural language processing, to better identify late talkers within EHR databases and create open data resources to support...
- This $448,525 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will fund a mixed-methods study by Father Flanagan's Boys' Home to examine caregivers' and pediatricians' decision-making processes related to late talking in children. The project aims to address key barriers in this domain, including understanding the information needs of caregivers and pediatricians, and how social determinants of health impact knowledge...
- This Project Grant award of $868,458 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to the University of Texas at Austin aims to characterize the communication practices of Black families with children identified as late talkers. The study will use a mixed-methods approach, including video-cued ethnography and direct child assessments, to (1) understand Black caregivers' conceptualization of effective communication and late talking, (2) describe...
- This Project Grant award of $435,875 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will be used by Vanderbilt University to address issues with the reliability and generalizability of research on late-language emergence, or "late-talking," in children. The project aims to: 1) Increase the availability of data on late-talkers by curating and ingesting existing datasets into a data repository, 2) Integrate the datasets using...
- This federal Project Grant award is funded 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). The project aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of language control mechanisms across comprehension and production in diverse bilingual populations, including both unimodal (using the same perceptual and motoric systems for both languages) and bimodal (using...
This Project Grant award of $432,893 from the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund a study titled "JUMP START TO TALK: UNDERSTANDING DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES FROM PARENTS AND TEACHERS TO RETHINK AND IMPROVE IDENTIFICATION, REFERRAL, AND SERVICE FOR DUAL LANGUAGE LEARNER LATE TALKERS" at the University of Miami. The study aims to examine the cultural perspectives of Hispanic and Haitian caregivers and early childhood education (ECE) teachers regarding the identification and service access for dual language learner (DLL) children who are late talkers. Through partnerships with local community organizations, the researchers will conduct interviews with 30 caregivers and 30 ECE teachers to understand factors influencing service access from identification to provision. The findings will inform strategies to improve recognition, referral, and service delivery for this underserved population. The project will be conducted from September 2025 through August 2027.