Grant Awards

Dean Lillard, Professor, Consumer Sciences

The grant funds the collection and preparation of data for a larger project on vaccine hesitancy that the National Institute of Health is reviewing.

Kenneth Steinman, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Human Sciences

The goal of the Ohio Adult Protective Services Technical Assistance (OAPSTA) Project is to build Ohio’s capacity to help county APS programs develop outstanding quality assurance processes.

Our project aims to facilitate the thoughtful use of ODAPS data and strengthen ODJFS’s ability to provide ongoing technical support to develop best practices, determine barriers to compliance, and identify service gaps. It is designed so that APS staff from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) will be able to sustain this work independently once the project ends.

Laura Justice, Professor; Executive Director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy (CCEC)

The proposed 5-year study uses a causally interpretable research design to examine the effects of the Sit Together and Read (STAR) early-literacy intervention on the short- and long-term literacy skills of young children with developmental language disorder. It also examines the use of caregiver-directed behavior- change strategies as a means to support caregivers’ implementation of the intended treatment strength. STAR is a fully manualized intervention that significantly improves the early-literacy skills and longer-term reading outcomes of children at-risk for future reading difficulty. The proposed study is instrumental in assessing longitudinal impacts for children with developmental language disorder and identifying ways to enhance caregiver implementation of the key intervention ingredients.

More information may be found here.