Project Grant R21HD112724

Award Date 9/1/24
Completion Date 8/31/26
Dollars Obligated $213K
Federal Grant Program
93.865
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Auburn, AL 36832, USA

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research provides $213,209 to Auburn University to conduct a single-arm pilot clinical trial. The goal is to evaluate tactics for mitigating relapse of severe problem behaviors, such as self-injury and aggression, in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Key mitigation tactics to be examined include multiple context training, incorporation of extinction-correlated stimuli, caregiver fading procedures, and competing stimuli during schedule thinning. The research team will use a single-case experimental design to assess the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of these relapse-mitigation approaches in the context of functional communication training. A subaward of $XX,XXX was provided to the Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc. to support this effort. The 2-year project began on September 1, 2024 and is scheduled for completion on August 31, 2026.

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