Communicative Disorders

描述（由申请人提供）：此申请是一项持续的机构资助，旨在为每年四名博士预科生和两名博士后学员提供交流障碍和科学领域的研究培训。在四个相互关联的领域提供实践学徒培训：(1)语言产生、发展和障碍；(2)语言结构、发展和障碍；(3)语音生理学；(4)听觉感知、神经编码和可塑性以及感觉辅助。另外两个领域将为在以下四个领域之一工作的博士生和博士后学员提供“支线”专业：(5)听觉、语言处理和沟通障碍的认知神经科学方法；(6)语言学在传播科学与障碍中的应用。言语、语言和听力科学系的15名活跃的研究人员将作为参与教师。这些人经常在跨越这些研究领域的项目上进行合作。将学习高级课程；然而，培训计划的主要目的是提供密集的互动研究经验，引导建立成功的独立临床研究者。该计划特别侧重于招聘和培训具有基础科学背景的个人，他们希望从事沟通障碍的研究工作，以及具有主要临床背景的个人，他们之前的研究培训很少。除了实验室研究经验外，学员还将通过必修的研究经费写作课程和准备F31/F32奖学金申请获得资助经验。资助博士生和博士后，资助期限为两年。博士预科生将通过大学奖学金、主要导师的R01奖学金，以及（如果获得的话）个人F31奖学金，在他们两年培训奖学金之前和之后获得资助。该计划的结构和重点应有助于解决沟通障碍领域活跃和成功研究人员的严重短缺问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is for a continuing institutional grant designed to provide research training in the area of communication disorders and sciences for four predoctoral and two postdoctoral trainees per year. Hands-on apprenticeship training is provided in four interrelated areas: (1) Speech Production, Development, and Disorders; (2) Language Structure, Development, and Disorders; (3) Speech and Voice Physiology; and (4) Auditory Perception, Neural Coding and Plasticity, and Sensory Aids. Two additional areas will be offered as "feeder" specialties for predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees working in one of these four areas: (5) Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches to Hearing, Language Processing, and Communication Disorders; and (6) Linguistics Applied to Communication Science and Disorders. Fifteen active researchers in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences will serve as the participating faculty. These individuals routinely collaborate on projects that cut across these research areas. Advanced coursework will be taken; however, the main purpose of the training program is to provide intensive interactive research experience leading toward the establishment of successful independent clinical investigators. The proposed program focuses especially on the recruitment and training of individuals with a basic science background who wish to pursue research careers in communication disorders, and individuals with a primarily clinical background whose prior research training was minimal. Along with the laboratory research experience, trainees will gain grant experience through a required research grant writing course and the preparation of F31/F32 fellowship applications. Both predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees will be funded for two years. Predoctoral students will be funded before and after their two-year training grant funding through university fellowships, their major advisors' R01 grants, and, if awarded, individual F31 fellowships. The structure and emphasis of the proposed program should help to address the critical shortage of active and successful researchers in the field of communication disorders.