Gaab Lab Awarded 5-Year Grant to Continue Longitudinal Dyslexia Research!

We are thrilled to share that our team has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue our longitudinal BabyBOLD study (also known as our “Dyslexia Study”) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education!

This study started in 2010 when our participants were infants. This phase of the project will re-invite them as adolescents, creating the first longitudinal study spanning 12+ years that specifically examines language, reading, and brain development together. Our goal is to understand how early brain, behavior, and brain–behavior co-development shape typical and atypical reading comprehension, a complex skill that is essential for success in school, employment, and mental health. By following children from infancy and capturing multiple developmental time points, we aim to identify the foundations of typical and atypical reading comprehension long before formal schooling begins and to inform earlier preventive and intervention approaches.

You can find a more detailed description of this phase of the study here: https://reporter.nih.gov/search/VIRQLVHYskensHxE10tW1g/project-details/11295654