Project Grant R43DC018447

This $2,308,368 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports research to investigate the relationship between visual attention, multimodal communication cues, and expressive language development in typically developing children and those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research, led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will leverage existing datasets and conduct new...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1 million to Itherapy, LLC of Martinez, California to develop an evaluative artificial speech intelligence and autism screener system called EASI-AS. The system aims to improve treatment for children with communication impairments by providing specialists and parents with accurate, efficient reports on speech and language evaluations along with...

This seven hundred forty-nine thousand nine hundred sixty dollar National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of next-generation augmentative and alternative communication technology powered by artificial intelligence. Under the NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, the University of Arkansas will lead a collaborative effort with Temple University to spearhead a new generation of AI-powered AAC devices through December 2023. The project aims to enhance...

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems award provides $600,000 over 3 years (8/1/2023 - 7/31/2026) to Michigan State University to develop an assistive technology framework for improving social skills interventions for children with autism and other developmental disabilities in classroom settings. The key products to be developed include a wearable human interaction tracker (WHET) tag that can quantitatively measure and track interactions...

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 $160,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will support research by Northwestern University to investigate the mechanistic underpinnings of pragmatic language impairments in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and FMR1 mutation conditions. The research aims to characterize the motor-speech skills contributing to pragmatic...

This $178,992 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Georgia State University Research Foundation to improve speech technology for better learning outcomes among African American English-speaking children. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the three-year award aims to develop data augmentation and normalization techniques to increase the amount of training data available and improve automatic speech recognition performance for this...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $489,500 to The Children's Hospital Corporation (doing business as Boston Children's Hospital) to conduct research on identifying early neurobiological markers and developmental factors that impact language acquisition in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research aims to (1) characterize resting state EEG differences...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $457,873 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new technology that enhances communication and interaction for individuals with severe disabilities. The key objectives are to build and test a novel user interface that leverages multiple information sources, such as eye gaze, language models, behavior...