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The State of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

JAMES B. SNOW, JR, MD; Bethesda, Md

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1990;116(10):1135-1136.

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The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) is the 13th Institute of the National Institutes of Health. It is now 1 years old and is located in Bethesda, Md. The NIDCD mission is to conduct and support research and research training in normal and disordered communication processes, including diseases affecting hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language. The NIDCD accomplishes its mandate through research performed in its own laboratories, a program of research grants, career development awards, individual and institutional research training awards, center grants, and contracts to public and private research institutions and organizations. The Institute also conducts and supports research and research training in disease prevention and health promotion and the special biomedical and behavioral problems associated with people having communication impairments and disorders. This Institute also supports efforts to create devices that substitute for lost and impaired communication functions and to collect and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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