Student Travel Awards

The Student Travel Award application deadline is February 15, 2023

Student travel awards for the SRCLD conference are available for accepted student applicants participating in the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD). These awards are funded by NIH Conference Grant # R13 DC001677 for students from the US.

 The student travel awards are reserved for students at the undergraduate, masters, doctoral and post-doctoral level who identify as female and/or are from racial and ethnic groups that have been shown by the National Science Foundation to be underrepresented in health-related sciences on a national basis.  

The following racial and ethnic groups have been shown to be underrepresented in biomedical research: Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders, and Mixed race. Priorities for funding to qualifying applicants are:

• First author on an accepted paper or poster.
• An author on an accepted paper or poster.
• Submitted a research proposal for the program.
• Student interested in attending, not presenting.

All applicants must have an advisor submit a one-sentence confirmation of student status and university/college affiliation. Instructions for the advisor to substantiate the above will be included in travel award application confirmation email sent to the applicant upon submission.