UM Professor Earns $4.5M NIH Grant to Research Dyslexia

Dr. Julie Wolter, department chair and professor in the University of Montana Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, recently received a perfect score on her National Institutes of Health grant to study language development and dyslexia in children.

In the competitive research funding world of NIH, where often less than 10 percent of national applications are even considered for review, Wolter learned that her team’s research scored the highest rank possible, earning the $4.5 million grant.

The NIH R01 grant will fund Wolter’s reading and language research in young elementary schoolchildren. The purpose of the five-year funded research is to investigate how children who struggle to talk develop the ability to read and write.

http://news.umt.edu/2018/05/051718gran.php