# Communicative Disorders

> **NIH NIH T32** · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $210,821

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
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 three interrelated areas: (1) Foundational; (2) Developmental Disorders;
(3) Neurological and Degenerative Disorders. Fourteen 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/R21 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 and related areas.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9966948
- **Project number:** 5T32DC000030-29
- **Recipient organization:** PURDUE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** ELIZABETH A STRICKLAND
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $210,821
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1991-07-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9966948

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9966948, Communicative Disorders (5T32DC000030-29). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9966948. Licensed CC0.

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