Project Grant W81XWH1510183

The federal Project Grant award R21DC022240 was provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). The $489,500 award to The Children's Hospital Corporation, doing business as Boston Children's Hospital, aims to identify early electroencephalography (EEG) indices and neurobiological, behavioral, and environmental factors that impact language acquisition in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The key activities under this...

This Project Grant award of $621,682 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will fund Drexel University to implement and evaluate the "Online Parent Training in Early Behavioral Intervention (OPT-in-Early)" program. The OPT-in-Early program is designed to provide caregivers of children aged 16-48 months who are on a waitlist for an autism diagnosis with remote access to evidence-based...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $834,894 to Yale University to examine connections between neonatal brain network characteristics and later social development outcomes in infants with and without a family history of autism. The research aims to identify early brain-based risk factors and potential targets for early interventions to support social attention and engagement skills...

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 $504,283 to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct research on the relationship between preterm birth and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The key objectives of this 5-year study are to: 1) determine the epidemiology of ASD in children born preterm, and characterize the risk factors;...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $244,190 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to conduct a feasibility study on the Parent Infant Interaction Intervention (PIXI), a telehealth-based early intervention program designed to support caregivers of infants with rare neurogenetic conditions. The study aims to identify participation...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $2,043,439 to Childrens Hospital Medical Center (prime awardee) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (sub-awardee) to conduct a multi-site randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a daily living skills (DLS) intervention for autistic adolescents. The intervention, called Surviving and Thriving in the Real...

This K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD, CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program) provides $132,033 to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston to develop and evaluate a culturally and linguistically adapted mental health intervention program (Iniciando! La Adultez) for Latino young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their Spanish-speaking parents. The key...

This is a 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). The funding will support a 5-year study entitled "Identifying and Distinguishing Early Indicators of Autism in Latino Children (IDEAL)" conducted by the University of Texas at Austin. The key objectives of the IDEAL project are to: 1) Identify and distinguish the language...

This federal Project Grant award of $690,110, 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), supports a randomized clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the "Achieving Independence & Mastery in School" (AIMS) intervention for improving organizational, planning, and time management skills in middle-school students with autism spectrum disorder...

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...