The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites center applications for the Learning Disabilities Research Centers Program, hereafter termed LDRCs.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/29/2022
Size of the Grant: up to $5,400,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The LDRCs initiative focuses on generating new scientific knowledge to inform understanding of specific learning disorders (SLDs) and comorbid conditions through synergistic, integrated, team-based transdisciplinary science. This funding opportunity announcement invites both foundational and translational, transdisciplinary research addressing the definition, classification, etiology, diagnosis, epidemiology, early identification, prevention-based approaches, and remediation of children, adolescents, or young adults identified with or at risk for SLDs in component oral language abilities, reading, written expression abilities, mathematics and relationships among these SLDs and other disabilities and co-occurring or comorbid conditions. The LDRCs provide a unique platform to engage with external research and community members in purposeful, sustained bidirectional communication and provide career enhancing opportunities for early career investigators expanding their reach and impact.
This FOA requires well-integrated, synergistic, transdisciplinary research studies that address one or more of the following broad themes:
- refine classification and definition models of SLDs for component oral language abilities, reading, written expression abilities, and/or mathematics and, critically, develop developmentally sensitive models that prospectively predict risk of substantial learning difficulties and SLDs;
- further extend basic and translational research on SLDs impacting component oral language abilities, reading, writing, and/or mathematics and co-occurring conditions and enhance understanding of the nature of the relationship between SLDs and co-occurring conditions;
- enhance understanding of risk factors for the development of learning difficulties or SLDs and predictors of responsiveness to intervention preceding formal intervention and during intervention efforts;
- further identify basic neurobiological, genetic/epigenetic, cognitive/behavioral, and environmental mechanisms that influence the expression of SLDs at different developmental epochs across the lifespan;
- enhance the research knowledge base on early preventive efforts (i.e., prevention based models) including enhanced primary prevention services (e.g., early, primary intervention and screening) and later secondary and tertiary intervention efforts for those individuals minimally responsive to early intervention;
- emphasize research efforts which include a substantial emphasis on diverse participants samples. Applicants will need to make a case for why their population constitutes a diverse sample. For the purposes of the FOA, diverse participant samples include but are not limited to a) individuals from historically under-researched or understudied groups at high risk for or with demonstrated learning difficulties or SLDs, b) multilingual and English language learning populations, c) Native American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders’ communities in the U.S., U.S. territories and sovereign tribal nations, d) individuals experiencing housing insecurity and those involved in the social services or justice systems and e) more broadly, individuals living in poverty.
Funding Information
- NICHD intends to commit up to $5,400,000 in total costs in FY2023 to fund 3 awards.
- The maximum project period is 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
- The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- For-Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
- Local Governments
- State Governments
- County Governments
- City or Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
- Federal Governments
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.