Project Grant R324A180203

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA 93.173 Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program, provides $726,359.00 to Father Flanagan's Boys' Home to conduct research on factors influencing speech perception and functional hearing development in children. The key research objectives are to: 1) Evaluate how children's speech recognition abilities are impacted by listening to natural...

This federal Project Grant award of $589,930, provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), aims to investigate sex and gender differences in language impairment, disability, and service receipt. The primary goal is to determine why girls are less likely to receive language services than boys, which aligns with NIH's interest in diversity and the NIDCD's focus on...

This $847,242 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.324 - Research in Special Education) supports a research project titled "Partnership to Build Teacher Capacity to Promote Early Language Learning in Infants and Toddlers with and at Risk for Disabilities". The primary awardee, the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., will collaborate with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to document the efficacy...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $370,236 to the University of South Florida to use sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture teacher-child language interactions in diverse pre-K classrooms. The project aims to examine how often preschool teachers engage in language interactions with students, whether certain children receive fewer or briefer interactions,...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (93.173), provides $681,385 to Trustees of Boston University to develop and test a neurocomputational model that characterizes the speech motor skills of individual speakers. The key objectives are to: 1) Assess the specificity and reliability of the model's parameter fits to individual subjects,...

This federal Project Grant award for $370,705.96 was made by the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324). The funding supports scientifically rigorous research to address critical challenges in special education, with the goal of improving academic, behavioral, and transitional outcomes for students with or at risk of disabilities. Specifically, the award will fund a study on "Treatment Intensity Factors...

This $160,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a postdoctoral fellowship to investigate how children develop communicative competence through peer interactions. The key objectives are to collect and analyze a large dataset of child-child conversations, develop computational models comparing communicative acts across adult-adult, parent-child, and child-child contexts, and conduct...

The Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) awarded a $540,825 Project Grant (CFDA 84.324, Research in Special Education) to the University of Oregon (UO) to develop a technology-supported adaptive intervention for young children with language disorders and their Spanish-speaking caregivers. The project runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. UO has subcontracted with the Oregon Research Institute (ORI) and Western Washington University (WWU) to assist with this...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $318,850 will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles from May 2022 to April 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The research aims to improve speech technology and develop automated oral literacy assessments to better support learning outcomes for young African American English-speaking children. Specifically, the university researchers will develop data augmentation and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $109,799 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Florida Division of Sponsored Research. The grant supports a collaborative research project to use sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture teacher language interactions in diverse pre-K classrooms. The project aims to provide insights into how preschool language experiences shape children's language...