National AI Institute for Exceptional Education
The National AI Institute for Exceptional Education (AI4ExceptionalEd) brings together multidisciplinary experts from speech and language science, learning science, artificial intelligence research, human-centered AI-design, social robotics, data analytics and more. The goal is to develop use-inspired AI technologies to help scale the availability of SLPs for universal early screening and to provide ability-based interventions for the over 3.4 million children in the US with speech and language-related concerns.
Maximizing Outcomes for Preschoolers With DLD: Clinical Trial
Complete: This multi-site project focuses on improving language outcomes for children with expressive and receptive language delays. We are testing the efficacy of an 18-month parent-implemented language intervention for preschoolers with developmental language disorder. (Dissemination in progress)
Validating the Sentence Diversity Priming Task
The purpose of this project is to validate a clinical tool designed to measure toddlers’ sentence diversity and predict readiness for imminent grammatical growth. We hope this research will improve early identification of children who experience difficulty with language development.