Project Grant R4354930

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...

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 Project Grant award of $201,250 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA Program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" supports research to examine precursors to language impairment in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project aims to leverage recent advances in remote assessment of infant cognitive development to test three proposed mechanisms underlying language impairment in ASD: atypical speech...

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 of $431,750.00, 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), aims to develop algorithms for predicting behavioral outbursts in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using wearable biosensor data and advanced machine learning models. The key objectives of this 2-year award are to: 1) collect a novel dataset of physiological and movement...

This Project Grant award of $587,690 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of sequential accessible computational thinking curricula for middle school students with autism spectrum disorder. The project involves a research-practitioner partnership between Youngstown State University and two local middle schools. Key objectives include: 1) conducting a needs assessment to identify accommodations...

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 $509,310.95 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program, aims to investigate longitudinal trajectories and social mechanisms of depression in adolescent girls with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The grant will fund two secondary data analyses during the mentored K99 phase to map depression symptom trajectories in girls with ASD and typical development, as well as profile daily social experiences...

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...