Grants and Collaborations
Faculty in CSD are part of an active research community supporting the innovative and interdisciplinary mission of the department.
They are recipients of numerous prestigious grants and collaborate across Penn State and the local community to advance knowledge in communication development and challenges in speech, language, hearing, and feeding/swallowing, and to improve outcomes across the lifespan.
Our students, at both the graduate and undergraduate level, can engage with this research and learn from internationally recognized experts in the field of communication sciences and disorders. In these and other settings, CSD students not only discover whether they enjoy doing research, but also gain a better understanding of children and adults who have communication challenges.
Sponsored projects
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Improving Literacy in Children Who Use AAC
Evaluating Verbal Communication in Structured Interactions: Theoretical and Clinical Implications
National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)
U.S. Department of Education Training Grants
Addressing Critical Training to Improve Outcomes in Children with High-Intensity Needs
AAC Collaboration Project at Penn State
Penn State AAC Doctoral Leadership Project
Veteran's Health Foundation
Optimizing and Understanding Semantic Feature Analysis Treatment for Aphasia: A Randomized Controlled Comparative-Effectiveness Trial
Congressionally Districted Medical Research Programs
Home Telemonitoring of Bulbar Function by Acoustic Measurement of Swallowing and Speech Sounds in ALS
Parkinson Voice Project
SPEAK OUT! Therapy Grant Program
Pennsylvania SPEAK OUT! Therapy & Research Center
Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Campus and community collaborations
We strongly encourage the use of community advisors on research grants. In addition, we support a departmental research advisory group comprised of advocates and community partners in research to ensure appropriate representation in all that we do.
We proudly partner with community agencies, healthcare facilities, and public schools, in addition to the University collaborations linked below.
Selected centers and programs at Penn State
- Accessibility in Computing Lab
- Applied Cognitive Science Lab
- Autism and Developmental Disorders Collaborative
- Center for Educational Disparities Research
- Center for Health Care and Policy Research
- Center for Healthy Aging
- Center for Human-Computer Interaction
- Center for Language Science
- Center for Science and the Schools
- Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
- Child Study Center
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute
- Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
- Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy
- Huck Institute of the Life Sciences
- Parents and Children Together (PACT)
- RERC on Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Rock Ethics Institute
- Social Science Research Institute
- Child Maltreatment Solutions Network
- Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness
- Computational and Spatial Analysis Core
- Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction
- Evidence to Impact Collaborative
- Federal Statistical Research Data Centers
- Population Research Institute
- Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core
- The Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (which houses a human electrophysiology facility and a 3 Tesla fMRI unit)
- Survey Research Center
Departments in selected Penn State Colleges
- College of Agricultural Sciences
- College of Arts and Architecture
- College of Health and Human Development
- College of Education
- College of Information Sciences and Technology
- College of the Liberal Arts
- Eberly College of Science
- Interdisciplinary Institutes
- Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Neurology