Project Grant R41HD097833

OT App Design LLC received a $275,993 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on April 1, 2022 to develop a mobile device-based screening tool for assessing cognitive and motor skills in K-6 students via machine learning analysis of handwriting samples. The tool aims to improve early identification of deficiencies through objective and rapid analysis of a single handwritten sentence photographed on a smart device application. Algorithms will be created to predict handwriting...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $441,250 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to develop and validate a telehealth-delivered expressive language assessment tool for individuals with Down syndrome. The project aims to expand the accessibility and language capabilities of the Expressive Language Sampling-Narrative (ELS-N) procedure, which has shown promise as a psychometrically...

This Project Grant award from 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), provides $152,500.00 to Florida Atlantic University to upgrade the PAWPER XL-MAC tape system. The goal is to improve the accuracy of total body weight (TBW) estimates in children with obesity and to provide accurate estimations of lean body weight (LBW) in children and adolescents. The...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $295,907 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to Liberating Technologies Inc. (LTI) to develop a prototype "Unintrusive Pediatric Logging Orthosis Analytic Device (UPLOAD)." The goal is to create a commercially viable, unobtrusive remote monitoring system for pediatric orthotics that can improve compliance tracking. Key features include long battery life, low...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a 5-year, $714,638 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) to conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of the CAARE (Caregivers' Aid to Accelerate Recovery after Pediatric Emergencies) intervention. CAARE is a technology-assisted, stepped care program that provides emotional and behavioral...

This Project Grant award, totaling $211,875.00, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant is supporting the "Validation of the STIMQ Self Report: A Measure of Cognitive Stimulation in the Home" project conducted by New York University School of Medicine. The project aims to validate a self-report measure of cognitive stimulation in the home...

This $778,398 National Institute of Mental Health project grant will fund research at the University of California, San Diego to test the accuracy of eye tracking as an early screening tool for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the general pediatric population. The research aims to screen approximately 8,000 toddlers ages 12-24 months attending well-baby checkups over the five-year period from May 2023 to March 2028. Researchers will use eye tracking technology to measure social attention...

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 $178,000.00 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to design and validate a Pelizaeus Merzbacher Disease (PMD) severity scale. The goal is to develop a clinician-reported outcome measure that can be used to stratify PMD patients by disease severity, particularly early in the disease...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $344,357 Project Grant under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab) to validate non-linguistic laboratory biomarkers for detecting depression in individuals with aphasia. The study aims to assess the ability of three laboratory tests - heart rate variability, pupil dilation, and gaze duration - to...

This federal Project Grant award of $160,000 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to Northwestern University supports research to directly evaluate the neural pathways involved in post-stroke hemiparesis. The objective is to generate fMRI data capturing activity in the corticospinal tract (CST) and cortico-reticulospinal tract (CRST) during unilateral hand-grasping tasks with the paretic versus...