- designed to support basic and clinical research by scientists who are in the early stages of establishing an independent research career
- meant to help generate sufficient preliminary data for a subsequent R01 application
- can not be used for thesis or dissertation research
- must be focused on one or more of the areas within the biomedical and behavioral scientific mission of the NIDCD: hearing, ….voice, speech, or language
- not renewable
Examples
R 03 – Teaching Children who use AAC to Produce Rule-Based Semantic-Syntactic Relations (Binger, Cathy)
A total of 16 children who use AAC (ages 4-5) will participate. Each child will be instructed in the use of three semantic-syntactic relations with three additional generalization measures. The aided AAC modeling with contrastive targets intervention will include models of reversible targets (e.g., DOG BITES PIG; PIG BITES DOG) provided on the child’s AAC device. Innovations for the proposed AAC study include: (1) teaching children to ‘map’ spoken language onto AAC devices; (2) teaching syntactic rules, an area largely ignored with AAC populations; and (3) emphasizing word order, which is particularly problematic for children using AAC