National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grants

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• Cortical Mechanisms of Innate Frequency Discrimination

  Up to $3.3MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  Throughout evolution, the ability to distinguish acoustic frequencies from each other and from the surrounding auditory environment has been essential...

• Assessment of Speech Sound Disorders in Bilingual Latino Children: An Evidence-Based Procedure

  Up to $3.1MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  Bilingual children are often misdiagnosed as having a speech impairment when they truly exhibit typical development. In addition, speech-language path...

• Hedgehog signaling regulation of postnatal tongue and taste organ morphogenesis

  Up to $2.3MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  The tongue has a major developmental trajectory during suckling and weaning periods as they adapt for changes in feeding patterns and movement for spe...

• Serial transformations in the olfactory system

  Up to $689KDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  The olfactory system transforms odor chemistry into perception. The neural centers that implement this transformation — in the nose, the olfactory bul...

• Promoting hearing aid use: The roles of social networks and daily interpersonal processes

  Up to $669KDeadline: May 31, 2030open

  Hearing loss is a leading source of disability with 15% of U.S. adults (37.5 million people) suffering from hearing loss which predicts increased depr...

• Development and validation of vision system for improved placement of cochlear implant electrode arrays

  Up to $651KDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  Cochlear implants (CIs) are neuroprosthetic devices that are considered standard-of-care treatment for severe-to-profound sensory-based hearing loss. ...

• The impact of cochlear synaptopahty on brainstem mechanisms of monaural temporal processing and binaural hearing

  Up to $648KDeadline: May 31, 2030open

  Binaural hearing allows localization of sounds and confers advantages in complex environments, workplaces, classrooms, etc., where competing speech, n...

• Treatment of Vocal Fold Paralysis with Muscle Progenitor Cells

  Up to $641KDeadline: Feb 28, 2030open

  Vocal fold paralysis (VFP) occurs when the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) is injured, most frequently during thyroid surgery. This occurs in over 100...

• How spatial cues support communication: Interactions between auditory spatial features and task demands across cortical networks

  Up to $586KDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  Improving speech understanding in the presence of background noise by individuals fitted with cochlear implants is an enormous challenge. Although aud...

• Noradrenergic modulation of cortical taste processing

  Up to $565KDeadline: Mar 31, 2031open

  Neuromodulators play a critical role in adaptively regulating sensory neural computations, yet their effects on the taste system remain poorly underst...

• Language Profiles and Outcomes in School-Age Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder as Toddlers

  Up to $508KDeadline: Jul 31, 2027open

  /Abstract Late language emergence occurs in approximately 10-20% of children. There is significant variability in language outcomes among late-talking...

• Worry now or wait: A mixed-methods study of caregivers' and pediatricians’ decision-making for late talking

  Up to $449KDeadline: Jul 31, 2027open

  /ABSTRACT The long-term objective of this line of research is alleviate information and knowledge-to-practice gaps related to late talking for caregi...

• Molecular and physiologic architecture of the human inner ear

  Up to $446KDeadline: Jul 31, 2027open

  The Centers for Disease Control in the US reports that more than 15% of adults over the age of 18 suffer from hearing loss, making it the third most p...

• Breaking barriers: Harnessing implementation mapping to promote caregiver coaching in early intervention

  Up to $440KDeadline: Jul 31, 2027open

  Critical to maximizing communication outcomes for children with developmental delays (DD) is access to a high dosage of high-quality early interventio...

• Engineering PresTen: a novel membrane tension biosensor for probing cellular mechanotransduction

  Up to $433KDeadline: May 31, 2028open

  Mechanical forces are crucial regulators of diverse biological processes, such as sensory perception (e.g., hearing, balance, touch), blood pressure r...

• Optimizing Reading Instruction for Students who use AAC

  Up to $433KDeadline: Jul 31, 2027open

  Individuals with severe disabilities who cannot use speech to communicate and use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC; pointing to picture...

• Using High Definition transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Guided by Electrophysiology and Diffusion Tensor Imaging to Treat Verbal Retrieval Deficits Secondary to Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury

  Up to $249KDeadline: Feb 28, 2028open

  Language dysfunction is a common cognitive sequela of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in 31 % to 44% of TBI survivors. One of the most prevalent sequelae...

• Training the Next Generation to Achieve Hearing Health Access

  Up to $212KDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  Hearing loss affects a staggering 1.6 billion people worldwide, and 80% of affected individuals live in rural and underserved communities. Access to h...

• Examining Iconicity with EEG: The role of Motoric Iconicity and Embodied Cognition in American Sign Language

  Up to $79KDeadline: Jan 14, 2028open

  Most deaf/hard-of-hearing (DHH) children are born to hearing parents who do not know sign language. Current methods for auditory amplification are unp...

• Auditory perceptual processing in the primate superior colliculus

  Up to $79KDeadline: Feb 14, 2028open

  /ABSTRACT Auditory perception and communication, in particular in natural settings, involves the transformation of noisy, ambiguous, or uncertain audi...

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How to apply for National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders grants

Most National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders applications require: an organizational profile with mission and programs, a project proposal aligned with the funder's stated priorities, a project budget, and supporting attachments (IRS determination letter, board list, recent financials). Federal applicants additionally need a SAM.gov UEI and an active Grants.gov account.