At a glance
This grant funds research to develop new, culturally and linguistically responsive ways to measure children’s language development and the language environment, including tools that help identify children who may benefit from intervention. It is open to a wide range of organizations, including nonprofits, universities, governments, for-profit organizations, tribal entities, and foreign organizations. Award amounts are not limited, the number of awards depends on NIH appropriations and the number of meritorious applications, and the project period can be up to five years. No cost sharing is required, clinical trials are not allowed, and applications must include a community engagement plan and a data management and sharing plan.
What it funds
Official description from grants.gov
The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to encourage community-engaged research that broadens the conceptualization of qualities of the environment that can support language development in children and that focuses on the development of novel measures of childrens language development. The overall goal is to build the number of strengths-focused, culturally and linguistically responsive, and generalizable toolsto further our understanding of childrens language development and/or impairment, and predictors thereof.
Who can apply
- City or township governments
- County governments
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
- Others
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities / Indian housing authorities
- Small businesses
- Special district governments
- State governments