NEW INVESTIGATORS RESEARCH GRANT

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation) invites new researchers to submit proposals in competition for up to 10 research grants of $10,000 each.

The New Investigators Research Grant is designed to help further new investigators' research activities by funding one-year, preliminary studies that could launch larger-scale research studies. Research, while not limited in topic, should be focused to match a one-year scope and should have clinical relevance to audiology and/or speech-language pathology.

Note for 2022: In preparation for the grant submission and review processes, the ASHFoundation requests that potential investigators complete an Intent to Submit Form by March 2 to provide information regarding their proposed studies. When investigators log in to the online submission system, they will be prompted to complete the Intent to Submit Form. This step must be completed before proceeding to the proposal submission process.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILD LANGUAGE STUDIES

For 2022, one additional New Investigators Research Grant will be supported by the endowed Lois Bloom Language Development Research Fund, established by Dr. Lois and Robert Bloom, for the purpose of supporting research topics in the area of child language.

Investigators must meet the following criteria to be eligible for the New Investigators Research Grant.

• The investigator must have completed a PhD or equivalent research doctorate in communication sciences and disorders within the past five years (since 2017). Note: Due to the availability of other student research grant and scholarship funds through the ASHFoundation, students currently enrolled in a degree program are not eligible for this research grant.

• The investigator must not yet have received external research funding since completion of the PhD; prior internal university funding is accepted. Note that training grants (for example, NIH F32) do not disqualify the investigator from the New Investigators Research Grant.

• The proposal must be for research to be initiated, not currently in progress. The study should be completed in one year and the scope should align with the funding amount.

• The proposal submitted to the 2022 New Investigators Research Grant competition cannot be submitted to other 2022 ASHFoundation grant competitions. However, the investigator remains eligible to submit to other ASHFoundation grant competitions in the same year, if proposing to investigate a different topic.