Award
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders 5R01DC020713-04
A causal framework of communicative participation in people with Parkinson's disease.
Recipient
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Award Amount
$456,544.00
Ceiling
$456,544.00
Awarded
June 08, 2026
Identifier
5R01DC020713-04
Research project funded by NIDCD to improve communication participation in Parkinson's disease patients through advanced analysis and causal inference, setting the stage for clinical trials.
Description
The project aims to identify hypothesis-driven treatment targets to improve communicative participation of people with Parkinson's disease using dialogue theory, speech signal processing, causal inference, and a large corpus of spoken dialogues. This addresses a critical gap in clinical practice and prepares for a subsequent clinical trial in this new realm of clinical intervention.