Award
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders 1R21DC023392-01
Building vocabulary networks
Recipient
Purdue University
Award Amount
$431,750.00
Ceiling
$431,750.00
Awarded
September 05, 2025
Identifier
1R21DC023392-01
A research project funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to study early vocabulary growth and semantic development in young children, including late-talkers, through tailored word learning tasks.
Description
This project seeks to understand the mechanistic connections between early vocabulary growth and lexico-semantic development by measuring the impact of individually-tailored word learning tasks on subsequent vocabulary growth over a three-month window. It aims to inform theories of semantic development and support scalable, individualized word learning interventions for late-talkers and typically developing children.