# Research Symposium in Communication Sciences and Disorders

> **NIH NIH R13** · AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSN · 2022 · $39,900

## Abstract

The Research Symposium in Communication Sciences and Disorders supports a full day of
presentations by leading scientists in areas that are having transformational effects in the
communication sciences and disorders (CSD) discipline. The Research Symposium is held at the
annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and is open
to all of the approximately 15,000 Convention attendees, which includes students, practitioners,
and researchers. Following Convention, the Symposium content is widely disseminated through
audio recordings of the presentations, which are synced with the slides and transcribed, and by
making them freely accessible on the ASHA website. Additionally, each presenter submits an
article based on their presentation to the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
to be published in the annual Research Symposium Forum. An innovation that will be
implemented in this current funding cycle is that ASHA will make these articles freely accessible
upon publication on the ASHA Journals website and will deposit them in PubMed Central
without embargo. The first aim of the Research Symposium grant is to advance scientific
discourse and dissemination of scientific discovery and innovation on five topics that are having
transformational effects across several subareas in CSD. This will be accomplished, in part, by
making the Research Symposium Forum open access and by widely promoting both the
recorded and the written content across ASHA’s many communication channels. Over the next
5-year funding cycle, the Symposium will address five topics that cut across the areas of hearing,
speech, language, and other aspects of cognition, including (1) Health and Healthcare Equity of
People With Communication Disabilities, (2) Bilingualism, (3) Artificial Intelligence in CSD, (4)
Genetics in CSD, and (5) Intervention and Implementation Clinical Trials in CSD. The second
aim of the Research Symposium grant is to advance the research career development of early-
career scientists focused on research in CSD. Between 2021 and 2025, the Research Mentoring-
Pair Travel Award and ASHA’s in-kind contribution will provide funding to attend the
Symposium and mentoring support to 130 early-career scientists in CSD. The Travel Award
recipients will attend the Symposium along with a mentor and engage in mentored research
activities before, during, and after each Symposium. These activities are designed to help
integrate the protégés into their scientific community and encourage them to pursue a research
career and become productive scholars. The scientific base of the CSD discipline will be
strengthened by these scientific dissemination, research education, and mentoring activities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10370290
- **Project number:** 5R13DC003383-22
- **Recipient organization:** AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSN
- **Principal Investigator:** MARGARET A. ROGERS
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $39,900
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-08-01 → 2026-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10370290

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10370290, Research Symposium in Communication Sciences and Disorders (5R13DC003383-22). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10370290. Licensed CC0.

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