Learning Disabilities Research Centers (P50)

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The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites center applications for the Learning Disabilities Research Centers Program, hereafter termed LDRCs. The LDRCs will focus on generating new scientific knowledge to inform our understanding of learning disabilities (LDs) and comorbid conditions through synergistic, integrated, team-based transdisciplinary science. This funding opportunity announcement invites both foundational and translational, transdisciplinary research addressing the definition, classification, etiology, diagnosis, epidemiology, early identification, prevention-based approaches, and remediation of children, adolescents, or adults identified with or at risk for LDs in component oral language abilities, reading, written expression abilities, mathematics and relationships among these LDs and other disabilities and co-occurring or comorbid conditions. The P50 mechanism allows for richly integrative, multi-method approaches to examine research topics focusing on learning disabilities that are not feasible through standard research mechanisms. The LDRCs provide a unique platform to engage with external research and community members and provide career enhancing opportunities for early career investigators expanding their reach and impact.

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