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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>BAMFORD-LAHEY CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION FUNDS TWO
GRANT PROPOSALS IN 2001<o:p></o:p></B></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal>The Bamford-Lahey Children’s Foundation through its Grants
Program has made its first Grant Awards.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>During 2001, the Foundation reviewed a large number of letters-of-inquiry
and invited a smaller number of applicants to submit complete proposals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Based on reviews of the completed
applications by at least three colleagues and on a reading of the application by
the Foundation itself, two proposals were selected for funding of $20,000
each.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of the grants was awarded
to Drs. Hossein Sadrzadeh and Elena Plante from the University of Arizona.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their project is entitled “Role of
oxidative stress in pathogenesis of developmental language disorders.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The second grant was awarded to Dr. Lori
Swanson from the University of Tennessee and Dr. Marc Fey from the University of
Kansas.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The title of their project
is “Use of story retelling and story generation to facilitate the syntactic and
narrative skills of children with specific language impairment.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Abstracts of both studies can be found
on our website at <A
href="http://www.bamford-lahey.org/funded.html">www.bamford-lahey.org/funded.html</A>.
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<P class=MsoNormal> The Foundation is currently completing the processing
of additional completed applications and by mid year should have an
announcement of one or two more awards.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Inquiries about receiving a grant award should be in the form of a
letter-of-inquiry following the procedures outlined on our website <A
href="http://www.bamford-lahey.org/">www.bamford-lahey.org</A>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Before submitting an inquiry, applicants
for future awards are requested to carefully read the sections Objectives,
Orientation, and Grants on the website.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Consideration is only given to projects that are related to developmental
language disorders in children and can be completed in one year with maximum
funds of<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>$20,000.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications for either research or
development projects will be considered.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>However, projects whose results are limited to particular children or
particular clinics are not eligible.</P>
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