Congratulations to past foundation funding recipients.

David A Brown, PT, PhD, was recently awarded a 3-year, $450,000, field-initiated project grant from the Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) in support of his project, "Visual Guidance to Improve Stepping Behavior Post Stoke." Brown, a co-lead investigator of the STEPS project (part of the Foundation's Clinical Research Network), used modified protocols and measurement tools from STEPS to develop this new study. The NIDRR project will investigate the use of a novel simulated-object, stepping paradigm to improve walking in patients who have had a stroke. Participants will view simulated objects through a pair of goggles and will be instructed to step over challenging objects during body-weight--supported treadmill training. Brown was a 1988 recipient of Foundation funding.

Michael Schubert, PT, PhD, was awarded a clinician scientist K23 grant through the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The 4-year, $537,996 award supports his project, "Incremental Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex Adaptation and Utility of Saccades as Rehabilitation Strategies." The project will investigate the hypothesis that the efficacy of vestibular rehabilitation can be enhanced by presenting an incrementally adjusted audio signal, rather than demanding an immediate increase to fully normal function. Schubert, a 2000 PODS II recipient, also is the current recipient of the Foundation's Pittsburgh-Marquette Challenge-funded research grant in support of his project, "Mechanisms of Gaze Stability in Recovery of Dynamic Visual Acuity (DVA)."