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A -- RANDOMIZED, CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL OF MENTORS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTALLY DELAYED COMMUNICATION SKILLS SOL NIH-AG-95-11 POC Contact Points: Contract Specialist, Silver C. Jones, (301) 496- 4487/Contracting Officer: Sherley M. Mizzell, (301) 496-4487. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders intends to negotiate with the University of Alabama at Birmingham to conduct an intervention study to determine the degree to which improving a child's functional skills using mentors to provide communication skills in their early school years can reduce later problems in poor school performance and aggressive behavior. The University of Alabama at Birmingham has been chosen because it has the only known population based cohort of 800 children observed from the prenatal period up to age six. Statutory authority: 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (1), as set forth in FAR 6.302-1. The cited authority is applicable because of the unique combination of the cohort population, comprehensive battery of cognitive, language, and socio-emotional assessments, as well as, physical growth and health status measures obtained at birth, age one and between ages five and six. The children of this study are now enrolled in the greater Birmingham school districts and are available for intervention efforts. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0103)

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