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Cognitive and Language Development in Bilingual Children: Mechanisms, Limitation

Award Number: R01HD052523
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/10/2007
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2018

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Cognitive and Language Development in Bilingual Children: Mechanisms, Limitation - DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Executive control is the most important of the cognitive abilities developed in childhood. It includes the ability to selectively attend to relevat information, allocate limited attentional resources appropriately, switch between simultaneous tasks, and manipulate information held temporarily in mind. Executive control is one of the strongest predictors of academic achievement and long-term well being. Previous research has shown that bilingual children develop executive control earlier and perform executive control tasks more efficiently than their monolingual peers. The present proposal extends this research by investigating the mechanism by which bilingualism modifies these abilities and determining the limits of bilingualism in modifying this development for children who have executive control challenges. The two challenges to executive control investigated here are poverty and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), both situations that lead to delayed or impaired development. The research will use both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs to study these processes as bilingualism is emerging, both behavioral and electrophysiological (ERP) methods to document possible changes in brain response that are associated with this cognitive development, random assignment to groups in a training study to establish causality, and both typically-developing and challenged populations (poverty, ADHD) to investigate these developments in children at risk for poor executive control. Although there is substantial evidence for precocious development of executive control in bilingual children and delayed development of executive control in children in poverty and with ADHD, there is no research to date that investigates whether bilingualism continues to confer positive effects on development for children in these challenging situations. The research will reveal how neuroplasticity operates in children's development and how bilingualism in particular modifies cognitive and brain function. Understanding how a specific experience enhances the development of executive control has clear translational impact for creating interventions, remediation approaches, and instructional strategies to maximize the development of this crucial ability for all children.


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: 2019 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2019	2016	YORK UNIVERSITY	4700 KEELE ST	NORTH YORK	ON	M3J 1P3		CAN	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	10	10/26/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2016 ( Subtotal = $216,388 )
2016	2016	YORK UNIVERSITY	4700 KEELE STREET	OTTAWA, ONTARIO				CAN	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	10	4/12/2016	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$216,388
														Subtotal = $216,388

Issue Date FY: 2015 ( Subtotal = $241,006 )
2015	2015	YORK UNIVERSITY	4700 KEELE STREET	OTTAWA, ONTARIO				CAN	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	9	5/4/2015	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$241,006
														Subtotal = $241,006

Issue Date FY: 2014 ( Subtotal = $240,612 )
2014	2014	YORK UNIVERSITY	4700 KEELE STREET	OTTAWA, ONTARIO				CAN	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	8	5/9/2014	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$240,612
														Subtotal = $240,612

Issue Date FY: 2013 ( Subtotal = $238,640 )
2013	2013	YORK UNIVERSITY	4700 KEELE STREET	OTTAWA, ONTARIO				CAN	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	7	5/3/2013	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$226,318
2013	2013	YORK UNIVERSITY	4700 KEELE STREET	OTTAWA, ONTARIO				CAN	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	7	5/22/2013	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$12,322
														Subtotal = $238,640

Issue Date FY: 2012 ( Subtotal = $256,663 )
2012	2012	YORK UNIVERSITY	4700 KEELE STREET	OTTAWA, ONTARIO				CAN	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	6	3/1/2012	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$256,663
														Subtotal = $256,663

Issue Date FY: 2011 ( Subtotal = $201,180 )
2011	2011	YORK UNIVERSITY	4700 KEELE STREET	OTTAWA, ONTARIO				CAN	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	7/19/2011	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$201,180
														Subtotal = $201,180

Issue Date FY: 2010 ( Subtotal = $209,563 )
2010	2010	YORK UNIVERSITY	4700 KEELE STREET	OTTAWA, ONTARIO				CAN	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	4	5/12/2010	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$209,563
														Subtotal = $209,563

Issue Date FY: 2009 ( Subtotal = $311,351 )
2009	2009	YORK UNIVERSITY	4700 KEELE STREET	OTTAWA, ONTARIO				CAN	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	2	12/30/2008	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$99,671
2009	2009	YORK UNIVERSITY	4700 KEELE STREET	OTTAWA, ONTARIO				CAN	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	3	4/16/2009	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$211,680
														Subtotal = $311,351

Issue Date FY: 2007 ( Subtotal = $216,000 )
2007	2007	YORK UNIVERSITY	4700 KEELE STREET	OTTAWA, ONTARIO		00000		CAN	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	5/7/2007	NEW	$216,000
														Subtotal = $216,000

Grand Total All Awards = $2,131,403

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Cognitive and Language Development in Bilingual Children: Mechanisms, Limitation

Award Number: R01HD052523

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

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

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/10/2007

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2018

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