CENTER FOR PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION IN CHILDREN

儿童感知与交流中心

• 批准号: 9248386
• 负责人: Lori J. Leibold
• 金额: $ 223.25万
• 依托单位: FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS' HOME
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-15 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9248386
• 关键词: Acoustics; Address; Advisory Committees; Auditory; Auditory system; Centers of Research Excellence; Child; Childhood; Clinical; Clinical Data; Communication; Complex; Development; Environment; Faculty; Future; Goals; Hearing; Hearing Aids; Hospitals; Image; Language; Language Development; Learning; Measurement; Measures; Mentors; Nebraska; Patients; Perception; Performance; Peripheral; Procedures; Property; Research; Resources; Speech; Speech Perception; Translational Research; Visual; Work; boys; cognitive function; experience; hearing impairment; interest; language perception; language processing; member; programs; public health relevance; quality assurance; relating to nervous system; senior faculty; signal processing; software development; success; visual processing

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the Center for Perception and Communication in Children (CPCC), a COBRE at the Boys Town National Research Hospital (BTNRH) in Omaha, Nebraska, is to expand the range of the current research program by providing a unique environment for the development of junior faculty who have an interest in understanding the consequences of childhood hearing loss for speech and language perception and processing, and ultimately describing performance of children with hearing loss in the real world. Our goal is to broaden the research program, building on its current emphasis on peripheral function in the auditory system to include state-of-the-art work on more complex issues such as the impact of hearing loss on performance in real-world environments including classrooms, the contributions of bottom-up and top down processing in children learning English as a second language, integration of visual and auditory information in speech and language acquisition, the adjustment of hearing-aid properties to promote development of temporal processing and the consequences for visual processing of vestibular deficits associated with hearing loss. Research on these topics will be facilitated by an Administration Core that will coordinate interaction with an External Advisory Committee and external mentors, a Technical Core that will provide support for hardware and software development, signal processing and room-acoustics issues and a Clinical Measurement Core that will collect clinical data, implement quality assurance procedures and assist with selection and interpretation of clinical measures. The CPCC will benefit from combined research experience of the senior faculty who will serve as core directors and mentors and from the unique patient resources and translational research environment at BTNRH. Future plans call for continued expansion of the research program to include work on speech/ language and cognitive function in children with normal hearing, taking advantage of neural imaging facilities currently under development.

描述（由申请人提供）：儿童感知与沟通中心 (CPCC) 是内布拉斯加州奥马哈男孩镇国家研究医院 (BTNRH) 的 COBRE，其目标是通过为初级教师的发展提供独特的环境来扩大当前研究项目的范围，这些初级教师有兴趣了解儿童听力损失对言语和语言感知和处理的影响，并最终描述听力损失儿童在儿童中的表现。 现实世界。我们的目 用于与听力损失相关的前庭缺陷的视觉处理。管理核心将协调与外部咨询委员会和外部导师的互动，技术核心将为硬件和软件开发、信号处理和室内声学问题提供支持，临床测量核心将收集临床数据、实施质量保证程序并协助选择和解释临床测量，这些主题的研究将得到促进。 CPCC 将受益于担任核心主任和导师的高级教员的综合研究经验，以及 BTNRH 独特的患者资源和转化研究环境。未来的计划要求继续扩大研究项目，包括利用目前正在开发的神经成像设施，对听力正常的儿童的言语/语言和认知功能进行研究。