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Advancing Screening, Diagnosis, and Referral for Late Talking Children

Funds research improving how late talking children get screened, diagnosed and referred to care in their first three years.

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A child who is not meeting expressive language milestones by around 18 months, for any reason, is what this notice calls a late talker. Whether that gets caught early, and what happens right after someone notices, still varies a lot depending on where a family happens to sit.

The NIH Tackling Acquisition of Language in Kids (TALK) initiative intends to fund research that develops and tests eviden…

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Last verified: 27 Aug 2026Source: www.grants.gov