-The University of Texas : Researchers To Study How Fathers Influence Children's Language Development; NIH Project Will Focus on Low-Income African American, Hispanic Families

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas' Callier Center for Communication Disorders and Center for Children and Families (CCF) have joined with colleagues from across the country to investigate how father-child interactions influence language development and literacy achievement in low-income ethnic-minority communities.

Led by the University of Georgia, the group of six institutions will use a five-year, $ 3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's Eunice Ken...