Funder: American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Intent to Submit Form)
Funding Amounts: Up to 10 grants of $10,000 each for one-year studies, plus one additional child language grant
Summary: Supports new investigators’ clinically relevant preliminary research in audiology and speech-language pathology as groundwork for larger studies.
Key Information: Applicants must have a recent research doctorate and no external postdoctoral research funding, except training grants.
Description
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation) supports new researchers through one-year preliminary studies that can launch larger-scale research. Topics are unrestricted, but proposed work should have clinical relevance to audiology and/or speech-language pathology and a scope appropriate to the award. The program seeks studies that advance communication sciences and disorders, address clinical needs, and provide a viable early step in an investigator’s research program.
Review priorities emphasize research importance, rigor, and feasibility, particularly tightly designed studies capable of producing compelling, reproducible findings. Innovation can involve refining, improving, or applying theoretical concepts, methods, or interventions, but novelty is not essential. An additional award supported by the Lois Bloom Language Development Research Fund focuses on child language research.
