This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.173), will fund a $116,126 research project to investigate how caregiver interaction strategies impact reciprocal communication in nonspeaking autistic children. The project will utilize a cohort observational design and sequential analysis to evaluate the influence of caregiver imitation...
This 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 $1,339,013.47 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct research on early markers of expressive and receptive language growth in ethnically diverse autistic toddlers. The 5-year study, with an award date of August 23, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of July 31,...
This federal 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 $200,000 to Northwestern University to conduct research on the role of contextual processing in speech perception for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project aims to advance the understanding of brain mechanisms contributing to speech processing differences and...
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), will support research on using speech entrainment to predict conversational outcomes in autistic adolescents. The $207,036 project, awarded to the University of Houston System, will investigate the relationship between speech entrainment and real-world metrics of conversational success for autistic...
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), will support the development of a novel wearable technology and artificial intelligence (AI) system for automatically collecting and analyzing language data from users of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices. The $571,645 award, valid from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027, will fund...
This 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 $726,359 in funding from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2030 to investigate factors that influence speech perception and functional hearing development in children. The key products and services to be delivered include: Evaluating children's speech recognition abilities using speech...
This Project Grant award of $314,152 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.173). The award will be used by San Diego State University Foundation to quantify communicative feedback in racially and ethnically diverse autistic adolescents who are minimally verbal or have language impairment. The project aims to develop and use probes to measure...
The University of Connecticut received a $145,642 Project Grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to conduct research on modeling individual differences in the temporal dynamics of spoken word recognition in autistic young adults. The project will utilize EEG and machine learning to examine individual differences in the neural and temporal processing of spoken words and nonwords among...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), titled "EXAMINING PRECURSORS TO LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT IN ASD VIA REMOTE ASSESSMENT," aims to leverage recent advances in remote assessment technology to better understand early language development in infants who later develop autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The $201,250 grant, awarded to Duke University, will fund research to identify potential mechanisms underlying...
This Project Grant award for $583,125 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 a study to develop and assess a novel Speech Accessibility Index (SAI) that quantitatively evaluates children's access to language in real-world environments. The research will also examine the feasibility of using EEG to assess preschoolers' neurophysiological correlates of...