National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders (NIDCD), a member of the U.S. National Institutes of
Health, is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and
behavioral research and research training in the normal and
disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice,
speech, and language. The Institute also conducts and supports
research and research training related to disease prevention and
health promotion; addresses special biomedical and behavioral
problems associated with people who have communication
impairments or disorders; and supports efforts to create devices
which substitute for lost and impaired sensory and communication
function. Differing from some other institutes, in 1999 the
NIDCD discontinued the Multi-Purpose Research and Training
Center funding mechanism (large center grants) for the entire
institute focusing instead on single-project research awards
(R01's). |This United States government