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This project addresses the need for increased opportunities for customized employment for individuals with cognitive disabilities by developing the Person-Centered Planning ToolKit. The Toolkit will enhance implementation of personcentered planning (PCP), often limited by lack of follow-through on action items and a lack of tools to match career preferences to specific customized employment opport ...

Through a pilot study of in three high schools with a diverse mix of racially and socio-economically-diverse end users, the researchers will examine the feasibility and usability of the prototype when used by students. The team will also collect user-experience feedback on whether the prototype helped students consider different pathways, changed perceptions about the cost or benefit of higher edu ...

This project develops and evaluates an intelligent web-based application, Tools for Reading to Acquire Content Knowledge (TRACK) for middle and high school students with neurocognitive deficits such as individuals with learning disabilities, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, traumatic brain injury, or autism spectrum disorder. Applying a participatory action research approach, investigator ...

Under the Small Business Innovation Research ProgramSBIRPhase I programTopicthe Contractor will develop a comprehensive approach to allow hospitals gain control of their opioid medicationsThe Contractor approach is totrack opioids from the pharmacy to the patienttrack the amount given to the patientand for opioid waste to track it back to the pharmacybetter administer opioids to patients that offe ...

This application describes the commercialization of the Geodesic Transcranial Electrical Neuromodulation (GTEN) technology to achieve noninvasive neuromodulation with improved spatiotemporal precision. The GTEN system enables both EEG source analysis and configurable electrical neuromodulation with the 256 electrodes of the Geodesic Sensor Net. Now in beta release to selected research customers, t ...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the most common reason for hospitalization in the U.S., with over 1 million admissions per year. Patients admitted with CHF usually need IV diuretics to promote fluid removal. The readmission rate is high – over 20% by 30 days, and 30% by 90 days post-discharge. This also presents an enormous economic burden - hospitalizations account for a large percentage of t ...

Project Summary!Parents who have children with developmental disabilitiesDDcommonly experience high levels of stress related to child behavior problems and contextual issues related to the childandapos s disability that can have a detrimental effect on their parentingCurrent stress management programs for this population of parents often do not lead to a reduction in childrenandapos s behavior pro ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT The societal costs of drug addiction are astoundingover $billion annuallyexceeding costs for any other health problemThe opioid epidemicespeciallyis devastatingoverAmerican overdose deaths daily at a cost of $billion per yearEach yearmillion emerging adultsEAsagesuse illicit drugsinEAsand overmillion are in need of treatment for substance use disordersSUDEAs represent the ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The goal of this project is to complete the preclinical development of Elex Biotechandapos;s novel compounds that target and treat the underlying molecular cause of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) CPVT. There are no FDA-approved treatments for CPVT, a rare genetic disorder affecting 1/10,000 individuals, with typical onset in children 7-9 years of age a ...

Project SummaryThis SBIR Phase I project will investigate the technical feasibility of a microfabricated chip system for enabling on site or in fieldhighly sensitive analysis of volatile organic compoundsVOCsin aqueous samplesThe system consists of two chips in a tandem configurationThe first chip is designed to extract VOCs directly from water samplesThe extracted VOCs are concentrated in the sec ...