Project Grant R4353076

This $769,284 project grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health will fund the development of new quantitative autism severity scores from existing instruments at John Carroll University from June 2022 through June 2025. Under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), the awardee will utilize multiple large datasets to apply modern psychometric approaches and create regression-adjusted, normative Social Responsiveness Scale-2 and Autism...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will support research to examine precursors to language impairment in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The $201,250 award to Duke University aims to leverage recent advances in remote cognitive assessment of infants to better understand the underlying mechanisms of language...

Directed Analytics Inc. received a $276,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop an automated employability skills framework. The one-year project will create a scalable software platform integrating data from school districts and higher education programs on transition methods and employment outcomes for individuals with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disabilities. Using machine learning, the...

This federal Project Grant award of $746,183 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA Program 93.242, Mental Health Research Grants, supports a prospective, longitudinal study on the association between autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysfunction in preterm infants and the development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental impairments (NDIs). The key objectives are to: 1) evaluate preterm ANS dysfunction as an ASD-specific etiological mechanism in...

This Project Grant award, provided under the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), seeks to co-design an AI-based solution for collecting and analyzing behavior data to support coordinated care for children with autism spectrum disorder (CWA). The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), the prime awardee, will partner with community stakeholders in a pilot study in San Antonio, TX to develop an AI-augmented platform for CWA...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA Program 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research - provides $621,682 to Drexel University to implement and evaluate an early intervention program called "Online Parent Training in Early Behavioral Intervention (OPT-IN-EARLY)". The program aims to empower caregivers of children awaiting an autism diagnosis to address their children's developmental needs...

This federal Project Grant award of $710,632 from 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 identify and distinguish early indicators of autism in Latino children. The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) is the primary grantee and will lead a research study to: 1) identify and distinguish Latino children's language and communication profiles, 2) assess the...

The Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) awarded a $465,136 Project Grant under the Research in Special Education (CFDA 84.324) program to the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The grant, titled "Identifying Social Experiences Linked to Academic Outcomes of Middle and High School Students with ASD in General Education Classrooms: Laying the Groundwork for Interventions," will fund research aimed at understanding the social experiences of...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a 5-year, $504,283 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The grant will fund a study examining the epidemiology and risk factors for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children born preterm, and determine if the genetic architecture of ASD differs between preterm and term-born children. The study will create a prospective...

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...