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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 ...

Oncology drugs continue to advance at a rapid pace with many therapies delivered orally as tablets or capsulesSmaller childrenhowevercannot swallow tablets or capsulesFor these drugs to be used in the pediatric population they need to be reformulatedTraditionally this has meant creating a liquid suspensionchewableor rapid dissolve tabletCancer medicationshoweveroften have terrible taste profiles t ...

The problemPatients receiving therapeutic radiation are at risk of adverse toxic effectsThese adverse events are usually unpredictable and may result in severe morbidity or mortalityExampleA third or more of patients receiving chest radiation for cancers of lung may develop life threatening acute radiation pneumonitisThe clinical needThere is a clinical need for an objective test to estimate the b ...

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 ...

Abstract The Specific Aim of this Phase IIb (Phase II competitive renewal) SBIR proposal is to advance the prototypes we developed under our Phase I and II SBIR grants into commercial production. We will produce SBS-96 format radiation sterilizable electronically tagged sample vials that can be read at ultra-low temperatures. Hundreds of millions of SBS-96 vials are sold each year and each of thes ...

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 Outbreaks associated with contaminated duodenoscopes are still occurring at high ratesRecent clinical studies evaluating patient used endoscopes reported that culture endoscope contamination rates range from andltup toExperts now recognize that there is an urgent need for an inexpensive and highly reliable sampling method to check on the adequacy of reprocessing duodenosco ...