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Research studies currently recruiting participants are listed below.

Study on socio-emotional competencies in children and adolescents

Location: Virtually

Age: 11 - 14 years old

Currently Recruiting Study Participants: Yes

• For parents with children ages 11-14 years old

• Typically developing students, students with Specific Learning Disabilities, ADHD, or any learning difference are encouraged to participate.

Total time: 3h (child), 30min (parent)

Compensation: $50

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Family Brain Program

Location: UConn & UCSF
Age: Families w/children ages 5-12 years old
Currently Recruiting Study Participants: Yes

You know where your eye color and height came from, but do you wonder where your reading and language abilities came from? How are we shaped by our genes, environment and the complex interplay between them? Our research team at the University of California, San Francisco and University of Connecticut is tackling this problem for the first time using the latest, non-invasive neuroscience approaches. This program helps scientists disentangle genetic, prenatal, and postnatal environmental influences in brain networks underlying cognitive processes. Ultimately, this research will help us understand how we become the way we are.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to learn about the cognitive traits of you, your partner, and your children, while helping to study some of the most intriguing mysteries of the human brain.

We are inviting families with a child born through assistive reproductive technology (ART) or natural conception (ages 5-12) to join a program that offers comprehensive information about their child’s cognitive abilities and a brain scan at no cost. Your participation will also help families by advancing scientific understanding of the effects of nature and nurture on cognitive, linguistic, emotional and academic development. Click to participate:

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RESCUE Project

Location: Nationwide (online)
Age: Educators and parents with children in Grades K, 1 and 2
Currently recruiting participants: Yes, until end of March, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to school closure since March of 2020. Most students will continue distance learning or a hybrid model where in-person instruction is minimal. The closure will likely have major impact on academic and socio-emotional development. Researchers think that 35% of the learning to read was already lost by the start of the school year in the fall of 2020. This is known as the COVID-slide.

GOALS

To offer state-of-the-art researcher-developed computer-adaptive reading instructional tool (GraphoLearn) and progress monitoring results (Star) to teachers, families and their students.
To quantify the impact of the COVID slide.
To test if EdTech (GraphoLearn) can prevent the COVID slide and how.

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B.R.A.I.N. CAMP @ UConn

Location: UConn Storrs Campus
Age: Incoming 3rd & 4th graders
Currently recruiting study participants: Yes

This July and August of 2021, we will be offering a FREE one-month Summer BRAIN CAMP for rising 3rd and 4th graders who need extra help with reading. This will be located at the UConn campus in Storrs, CT. We have limited spots available and parents/children must apply first to confirm their eligibility. This is a perfect opportunity for your child or student to gain firsthand learning and reading assistance in an engaging, summer camp setting. We are inviting families to apply and complete the eligibility screener on the camp website.

BRAIN CAMP

· is free (includes lunch, snacks and materials)
· is about 6 hours on a school-type schedule
· runs Monday-Friday for 1 month—mid-June/July or mid-July/August
· is for rising 3rd and 4th graders with reading difficulties that
· takes place at UConn Storrs campus, summer of 2021,
· includes reading, math, or attention and memory-building activities
· includes fun non-academic activities,

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Adult Reading Strategies Program @ UCONN

Location: UConn Storrs Campus
Age: 18-30 years old
Currently recruiting participants: Yes

This New England based research project is a federally-funded study examining brain mechanisms of reading and dyslexia in young adults. It integrates multiple, cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques to uncover the flexibility and resilience in adult brains with dyslexia. We hope this research will progress current models of reading intervention and promote successful compensatory strategies for both children and adults with dyslexia.

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