# PILOT TESTING, REFINEMENT, AND VALIDATING OF THE NBT, AND PREPARATION FOR NORMING STUDY

> **NIH NIH N01** · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $2,469,177

## Abstract

There is a wide range of early developmental assessment or screening instruments.
Standardized, reliable assessment instruments (e.g., Mullen Scales of Early Learning, Brigance 
Inventory of Early Development, Battelle Developmental Inventory, etc.) allow for direct evaluation 
of infant/child behaviors but they are time intensive, expensive to purchase, require highly 
trained personnel for administration, scoring, and interpreting, and often rely on outdated norms. 
The purpose of the NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox (aka the “NIH Baby Toolbox” [NBT]) is to develop 
and nationally norm an easy to administer, score, and interpret infant and toddler assessment 
inventory of cognition, social functioning, language (receptive and expressive), numeracy, 
self-regulation, executive function, and motor function for research and clinical use in children 
between 1- to 42-months of age that will include direct child assessment
(preferred measurement), supplemented as needed by parental/ legal guardian report.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10267863
- **Project number:** 75N94019D00005-0-759402000001-1
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** RICHARD GERSHON
- **Activity code:** N01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $2,469,177
- **Award type:** —
- **Project period:** 2020-09-18 → 2021-09-17

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10267863

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10267863, PILOT TESTING, REFINEMENT, AND VALIDATING OF THE NBT, AND PREPARATION FOR NORMING STUDY (75N94019D00005-0-759402000001-1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10267863. Licensed CC0.

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