Tag: Funding

National Study Aims to Document Relationship Between Language and Cognition in Childhood Language Disorders

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AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst will be one of two sites for a national study that aims to better understand language and cognition in two groups of children affected by language disorders. Language development researchers Jill Hoover, associate professor of communication disorders in the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health …

Legislation aimed at helping scientists sustain their careers

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By Kelly April Tyrrell Young scientists in the U.S. today face tremendous hurdles. Take, for example, the fact that while the average scientist in 1980 was 36 when they scored their first NIH (National Institutes of Health) grant, it now takes seven more years to achieve that significant career milestone. And young scientists are finding it …