NEW TASK ORDER FOR IDIQ CONTRACT: NIH INFANT & TODDLER TOOLBOX TO TITLE: FINALIZATION OF ALL MEASURES AND COLLECTION OF NORMING DATA FROM ALL PLANNED

2006年，NIH Blueprint授予NIH Toolbox®合同，开发一套标准的仪器来测量3-85岁人群的神经和行为健康，以确保评估方法和结果可用于跨研究的比较，从而最大限度地利用NIH受助者收集的数据。同样的开发人员在2019年竞争性地赢得了另一份NIH蓝图合同，以创建一套扩展的标准标准，用于年龄较小的儿童（即1- 42个月大的儿童）的神经发育评估措施，从而使研究人员和临床医生能够共享一种工具，用于神经和行为健康的全生命过程评估。这份为期5年的合同聘请了由西北大学Richard Gershon博士领导的一个国家研究团队，负责创建这个NIH婴幼儿工具箱（又名“NIH婴儿工具箱”或NBT）。

In 2006, the NIH Blueprint awarded the NIH Toolbox® contract to develop a standard set of instruments to measure neurological and behavioral health in persons ages 3-85 to ensure that assessment methods and results could be used for comparisons across studies, thus maximizing the utility of data collected by NIH grantees. The same developers competitively won an additional NIH Blueprint contract awarded in 2019, to create an extended standard set of neurodevelopmental assessment measures in younger ages – namely in children 1- to 42-months of age, thus enabling a tool for the full life-course assessment of neurological and behavioral health to be shared by investigators and clinicians. The 5-year contract engages a national team of researchers led by Richard Gershon, PhD, at Northwestern University, for the creation of this NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox (aka the “NIH Baby Toolbox” or NBT).