Advancement and Innovation in Measurement of Language Development and Predictors (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
This funding opportunity supports innovative research projects that develop new tools and methods for measuring children's language development, particularly focusing on diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, to improve early identification of those needing interventions.
Description
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.