The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $442,750 Project Grant under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to Duke University. The grant, titled "Advancing Identification of Late-Talking Children and Mapping Their Developmental Trajectories Using Real World Data from Electronic Health Records," aims to improve the use of electronic health record (EHR) data to study late language emergence in children. The project will employ novel machine learning techniques...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) has awarded a $437,479 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to leverage a unique dataset to identify outcome predictors in late-talking toddlers. The project aims to: 1) Analyze toddler-age precursors predictive of five divergent language and clinical outcomes at preschool ages, including transient expressive language delay, persistent expressive language delay, conversion to...
This Project Grant award, identified as R21DC021769, is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). The $514,152 award to the San Diego State University (SDSU) Research Foundation, a minority-serving non-profit organization, aims to develop tools for assessing communication in racially and ethnically diverse autistic adolescents who are minimally verbal or have language impairment. The project will utilize a participatory approach,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) totaling $696,317 will fund a study entitled "TALK WITH ME BABY: LEVERAGING WELL-CHILD CARE TO ENHANCE THE EARLY HOME LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT". The study aims to assess the impact of the "Talk With Me Baby" language promotion intervention, delivered during pediatric well-child...
This $489,500 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), will fund a study conducted by Boston Children's Hospital to investigate early predictors of late talking and primary language impairment (PLI) in young children. The study will analyze longitudinal data from three existing research projects to trace EEG trajectories and examine psychosocial environmental factors associated with late talking and risk for...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA Program 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders provides $518,542 to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct research on characterizing the language and motor development of racially/ethnically diverse infants and toddlers with Down syndrome.
The project will implement multiple methods, including technology, to measure language and motor...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) provides $116,126 to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. to investigate how caregiver interaction strategies influence reciprocal communication in nonspeaking autistic children aged 4-6 years. The project aims to evaluate the impact of caregiver behaviors like imitation and multimodal...
This Project Grant award of $122,654 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 fund research to (1) document the home and community storytelling practices of Mexican-American bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD), and (2) compare the utility of using community-derived measures versus standardized measures to assess their narrative...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $193,752 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to Trustees of Boston University. The 5-year grant, effective August 1, 2024, will support research examining the interactions between dual language input, semantic structure, and word learning in bilingual toddlers, including both typically developing and late-talking children. The project aims...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides funding of $167,626 to Father Flanagan's Boys' Home in Omaha, Nebraska. The funding supports a longitudinal study examining the impact of intergenerational adversity exposure on parent-child linguistic interactions and child language outcomes. Specifically, the study will leverage an existing...