Research Regarding Healthy Weight of People with Limb Differences
Obesity and unhealthy weight are a national health prevention priority and the focus of national health initiatives. Unhealthy weight in people with a variety of disabilities is commonly reported; yet...
View ArticleRare Condition Research Using a Combined Administrative/Clinical Data Warehouse
Kevin Bennett, PhD, Principal Investigator, University of South Carolina. (Funded 2014-2017) We propose to use administrative data and information from electronic medical records to identify and...
View ArticleProject to Learn About Youth – Mental Health – Univ of Florida
Steven Cuffe, MD, Principal Investigator, University of Florida. (Funded 2014-2016) Mental health problems are highly prevalent in youth and cause significant morbidity. While there has been concern...
View ArticleTranslating the GLB to Promote Healthy Weight in People with Mobility Impairment
Katherine Froehlich-Grobe, PhD, Principal Investigator, University of Texas School of Public Health. (Funded 2014-2017) People with mobility impairments remain underserved by public health efforts to...
View ArticleGenotyping Analysis for SEED Samples
Daniele Fallin, PhD, Principal Investigator, Johns Hopkins University. (Funded 2014-2015). There is considerable interest in identifying risk factors and understanding the molecular etiology of ASD;...
View ArticleProject to Learn About Youth – Mental Health (PLAY-MH) – Ohio University
Julie Owens, PhD, Principal Investigator, Ohio University. (Funded 2014-2016) Children and adolsecents with mental health problems, including internalizing, externalizing, and tic disorders exhibit...
View ArticleWI-IN Partnership to Evaluate Use of LTSAE in Childcare Settings
Gail Chodron, PhD-Candidate, Principal Investigator, Joan Ershler, PhD, Co PI, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Funded 2014-2016) In order to be meaningful, effective, and sustainable, any attempt to...
View ArticleSeptember 2014 – 6 New Projects Commence
Nearly 50 grant applications resulted from the 2014 RFAs, and six were funded, in addition to five continuing projects. The new projects commenced on September 30, 2014. Learn more about all funded...
View Article2015 Grants Posted – Applications due February 27
Three (3) new competitive funding opportunities are available, with applications due on February 27, 2015. For more information, start here. You may also directly access the individual postings using...
View ArticleDRDC Releases Year 2 Evaluation Report
The DRDC has released its 2nd annual evaluation report covering October 2013 through September 2014. The projects for the year involved 8 universities, 2 non-profit disability advocacy organizations,...
View ArticleDeveloping an Epidemiological Tool Based on DSM-5 Criteria
Prudence Fisher, PhD, Principal Investigator, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc (Funded 2015-2016) The purpose of the project is to update the DISC, an epidemiologic tool designed to assess...
View ArticleAssessing Impact of Early Identification and Intervention on Permanent...
Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, PhD, University of Colorado-Boulder (Funded 2015-2017) This project will analyze over 5000 assessments collected on over 2000 children with permanent hearing loss, before and...
View ArticleAssessing Impact of Early Intervention Outcomes to Document EHDI Impact in...
Anne B. Harris, PhD, University of Wisconsin (Funded 2015-2017) Approximately one to three out of every 1,000 children in the United States are born deaf or hard of hearing. Over the past 20 years,...
View ArticleEHDI Quality Across the Continuum of Care
Terese Finitzo, PhD, OZ Systems (Funded 2015-2016) This project will address EHDI quality across the continuum of care in a retrospective sample of 1,000,000 newborns from three EHDI jurisdictions (TX,...
View ArticleObservation & Pretesting Study: Adaptation of Amazing Me for 2-Year-Olds/Parents
Rebecca Ledsky, MBS, Family Health International (Funded 2015-2016) This goal of this project is to conduct formative/audience research to test a draft of a new book about and for 2-year-old children....
View ArticleParent Action and Doctor Interaction Regarding Child Development Pre/Post-LTSAE
Anne Gadomski, MD, Bassett Healthcare Network (Funded 2015-2017) The purpose of this project is to answer the question: Does exposure to “Learn the Signs. Act Early.” (LTSAE) influence parents’ actual...
View ArticlePericonceptual Surveillance for Prevention of Anemia and Birth Defects in India
Julia Finkelstein, ScD, Cornell University (Funded 2015-2016) Neural tube closure defects (NTDs) are among the most common and severe adverse pregnancy outcomes in the United States and globally. Women...
View ArticleProject to Learn About Youth – Mental Health II (Re-PLAY)
Kate Flory, PhD, University of South Carolina (Funded 2015-2017) Internalizing, externalizing, and tic disorders among children and adolescents increase the risk for many negative outcomes. Research is...
View ArticleWork Begins on New Projects – September 30, 2015
The DRDC is funding 8 new and 7 continuing external projects through its Cooperative Agreement with the CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. A complete list of...
View ArticleRFAs Posted for 2016 – Applications due March 1
The DRDC announces new research opportunities with the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for 2016. NOTE: All applications...
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