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Interactive book reading to accelerate word learning by children with SLI

Award Number: R01DC012824
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 03/01/2013
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2024

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Interactive book reading to accelerate word learning by children with SLI - Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) are slower to learn new words than their peers, placing them at risk for academic failure. Our long-term goal is to develop an effective word learning treatment for kindergarten children with SLI, thereby improving their academic and vocational outcomes. During the prior funding period, we successfully taught new words to children with SLI via interactive book reading, a treatment involving an adult reading a storybook to a child and deviating from the text to teach new words. We identified the appropriate intensity of the treatment and showed that children with SLI can learn an appropriate number of words by the end of treatment. However, this successful support of short-term word learning revealed new challenges that must be overcome in this renewal to continue to understand and improve long-term word learning by children with SLI. Thus, a second preliminary clinical trial involving 60 kindergarten children with SLI is proposed in this renewal. Aim 1 addresses the challenge that newly learned words were forgotten once treatment was withdrawn. We attempt to buffer forgetting by comparing different amounts of testing during interactive book reading (low vs. mid vs high testing). Incorporating testing into training is a well-established and highly replicated means of reducing forgetting by adults and typically developing children. Aim 1 will determine whether testing can be harnessed to buffer forgetting by children with SLI under real world conditions. Aims 2 and 3 address the challenge that not all children benefitted equally from interactive book reading. In Aim 2, we identify pre-treatment characteristics of children with SLI that are associated with the slope of learning during treatment or the slope of forgetting post-treatment. Moreover, we select a pre- treatment battery that samples a wide array of skills likely to be associated with learning (language processing, working memory, and episodic memory) or forgetting (learning at last treatment, decay rate). Aim 2 will provide a foundation for predicting which children will benefit from interactive book reading and will identify which skills are major barriers to long-term word learning by children with SLI. In Aim 3, we classify each child’s response at the end of treatment (learner vs. non-learner) and at the end of post-treatment monitoring (rememberer vs. forgetter) and then examine earlier performance to determine when treatment and post-treatment outcomes can be predicted. This yields empirically based benchmarks for progress that can be used later to tailor the treatment to individual children and establishes the stability of learning and forgetting over time. Overall, this research advances a promising treatment to effectively overcome the significant word learning challenges faced by children with SLI and reveals the contribution of learning and forgetting to language normalization by children with SLI. The results will have impact beyond word learning and SLI because all treatments require boosting learning and buffering forgetting. Thus, the knowledge gained will further catalyze clinical research.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = -$35,202 )
2024	2022	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	001	10	9/20/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$35,202
2024	2022	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	10	11/15/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = -$35,202

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $288,931 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	10	5/22/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$288,931
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	001	10	7/15/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $288,931

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $305,227 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	9	5/18/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$305,227
														Subtotal = $305,227

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $305,227 )
2020	2020	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	8	5/18/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$305,227
														Subtotal = $305,227

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $306,129 )
2019	2019	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	006	7	5/21/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$306,129
2019	2018	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	005	6	5/17/2019	COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$37,184
2019	2018	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	003	6	5/17/2019	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$37,184
2019	2018	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	001	6	12/14/2018	COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$14
2019	2017	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	002	5	5/17/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$37,184
2019	2017	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	5	12/14/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$14
2019	2017	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	004	5	5/17/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$37,184
														Subtotal = $306,129

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $307,803 )
2018	2018	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	001	6	4/16/2018	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$307,803
2018	2018	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	003	6	9/19/2018	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$37,198
2018	2017	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	002	5	9/19/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$37,198
2018	2017	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	5	4/16/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $307,803

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $305,540 )
2017	2017	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	001	5	5/24/2017	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$30,554
2017	2017	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INC.	2385 IRVING HILL RD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	5	2/15/2017	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$274,986
														Subtotal = $305,540

Issue Date FY: 2016 ( Subtotal = $306,236 )
2016	2016	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC	2385 IRVING HILL ROAD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	4	2/25/2016	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$306,236
														Subtotal = $306,236

Issue Date FY: 2015 ( Subtotal = $303,822 )
2015	2015	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC	2385 IRVING HILL ROAD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	3	2/11/2015	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$303,822
														Subtotal = $303,822

Issue Date FY: 2014 ( Subtotal = $307,190 )
2014	2014	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC	2385 IRVING HILL ROAD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	2	2/11/2014	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$307,190
														Subtotal = $307,190

Issue Date FY: 2013 ( Subtotal = $306,814 )
2013	2013	UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC	2385 IRVING HILL ROAD	LAWRENCE	KS	66045	DOUGLAS	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	1	2/5/2013	NEW	$306,814
														Subtotal = $306,814

Grand Total All Awards = $3,007,717

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Interactive book reading to accelerate word learning by children with SLI

Award Number: R01DC012824

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 03/01/2013

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2024

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