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Summary: This Phase IIb grant application describes a plan for demonstrating significant improvement of identifying ASD subjects at a very young age and facilitating diagnostic assessments for autism earlier via a proven telehealth service. The plan includes partnering with a private company (CHADIS) that has a substantial client base of referring pediatricians already using their technology to sc ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposed SBIR Phase II renewal will leverage the technical expertise of academic collaborators at Georgia Institute of Technology and ongoing relationships forged with behavioral health professionals to introduce key technical innovations to our existing Behavior Imaging(R) telehealth system, and evaluate the enhanced system in two clinical assessment sett ...

NODA Telehealth system improves access to an autism diagnostic assessment by guiding families to share video clips of their child at homeso diagnostic clinicians can directly observe andtagvideo of any atypical behaviorand if warrantedrender a diagnosisThis system is evidence based and has been commercializedwith several published studies to discuss the benefitsWe now propose to improve this servi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant A disparity exists between rural and urban suburban children with suspected ASD in the time interval between first identification of a possible problem and a firm diagnosis This project will investigate the effect of a recently developed and validated remote diagnostic method leveraging an evidence based Smartphone Telehealth service called NODA tm for auti ...

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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Gutless (helper-dependent) adenovirus vectors constitute a promising tool for gene transfer, with potentially a wide variety of applications in research and medicine. Although high-titer gutless adenovirus prepara

PROJECT SUMMARY There is an increasing trend for children with ASD with primary behavioral challenges to be hospitalized in medical facilities because accessible behavioral support resources are not available in local communities. Unfortunately, most community-based hospitals are not well equipped to meet optimal behavioral care with families consequently experiencing prolonged/protracted hospital ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We will develop and evaluate a tool designed to support the collection of rich data for performing a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) in schools focusing specifically on children with autism. The proposed archiving system will permit educators to record only those data or behaviors judged to be important for later retrieval and review. The "experience buffe ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this proposal is to develop a non-invasive, real-time, quantifiable cell-based assay to detect and report on furin-like protease activity to identify small molecule inhibitors of furin-like proteases by high throughput screening (HTS). Furin-like proteolytic enzymes are members of the Proprotein Convertase (PC) family that serve to process i ...

Project Summary The United States faces significant shortfalls recruiting and producing the healthcare professionals. In addition to staff shortages, the workforce is also burdened by a lack of racial and ethnic diversity. As a potential counter to these widening gaps, Liiingo’s healthcare career exploration game, Upward Knowbility, is a novel tool for secondary students to learn about career op ...