Dr. William Graves Awarded NIDCD R56 Grant to Advance Personalized Treatments for Acquired Dyslexia

Dr. William Graves, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers–Newark and member of the Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI), has received an R56 grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) for his project “Evidence-Based Modeling Approaches to Customizing Treatments for Acquired Dyslexias.”

The research applies data-driven computational cognitive modeling of reading and its impairment to match people with aphasia and acquired dyslexia to the treatments most likely to benefit their individual patterns of reading difficulty. By extending neural network models of typical reading to simulate stroke-induced dyslexia and its rehabilitation, Dr. Graves aims to identify the cognitive sources of impairment and test personalized interventions that can improve reading beyond trained words. The project’s findings are expected to advance our understanding of the cognitive basis of reading, accelerate evidence-based, personalized therapies, and improve quality of life for stroke survivors with aphasia-related dyslexia.

Learn more: https://reporter.nih.gov/search/yiuRGmusZ0isLFsndMDisg/project-details/11401250