
Live Smart Live Safe: Healthy Development For Girls And Adolescents With IntellecAward last edited on: 9/9/14
Sponsored Program
SBIRAwarding Agency
NIH : NICHDTotal Award Amount
$313,874Award Phase
1Solicitation Topic Code
-----Principal Investigator
Khaya D ClarkCompany Information
Tech-Aid LTD (AKA: Technological Assistance Institute For Intellectual Disability Ltd)
1000 Willagillespie Road Suite 150
Eugene, OR 97401
Eugene, OR 97401
(541) 520-6440 |
jwells@techaidinstitute.com |
www.techaidinstitute.com |
Location: Single
Congr. District: 04
County: Lane
Congr. District: 04
County: Lane
Phase I
Contract Number: 1R43HD074323-01A1Start Date: 9/16/13 Completed: 9/15/14
Phase I year
2013Phase I Amount
$313,874Public Health Relevance Statement:
Public Health Relevance:
This application addresses the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) mission, which is interested in the development of effective tools for prevention research and intervention programs related to STD/HIV, pregnancy, health promotion including interpersonal and social factors, and health literacy. The Phase I program is designed for evaluation by parents, girls with mild to moderate intellectual disability (ID), and caregivers of girls and adolescents with ID. The confluence of th high rate of sexual abuse experienced by this population,2-4 the association between early menarche and intellectual disability [ID],5 and the difficulty females with ID experience in engaging in basic menstrual self- care6-10 indicates a need for a program of this type.
NIH Spending Category:
Behavioral and Social Science; Brain Disorders; Clinical Research; Health Services; Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD); Mental Health; Pediatric; Prevention
Project Terms:
21 year old; Address; Adolescent; Adult; Affective; Age; base; caregiver education; Caregivers; Child; Child health care; Communication; Comprehension; Computers; design; Development; disability; Educational process of instructing; Ensure; Evaluation; evidence base; Exercise; experience; Female; Female Adolescents; Focus Groups; Friends; Friendships; girls; Health Communication; health literacy; Health Promotion; HIV/STD; Human Development; innovation; Institutes; Instruction; Intellectual functioning disability; interactive multimedia; interest; intervention program; Joints; Life; Menarche; Menstrual cycle; Methodology; Methods; Mission; Online Systems; Parents; Personal Computers; Phase; Physiological; Population; Pregnancy; Prevention; Prevention Research; Preventive Intervention; Price; Procedures; programs; prototype; Provider; public health relevance; remediation; Reporting; Research Training; Self Care; Self Efficacy; Services; Sexual abuse; skills; Slide; social; Social Development; social norm; Tablets; Target Populations; teacher; Technology; Telephone Interviews; Testing; Text; tool; Touch sensation; Training
Phase II
Contract Number: ----------Start Date: 00/00/00 Completed: 00/00/00