{"id":2258,"date":"2026-05-06T15:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:48:31","slug":"2025-cidd-trainee-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/2026\/05\/06\/2025-cidd-trainee-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 CIDD Trainee Research Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2259\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 175px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1401\/2026\/05\/alana-epstein-e1778096626155.png\" alt=\"Alana Epstein\" width=\"165\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1401\/2026\/05\/alana-epstein-e1778096626155.png 1179w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1401\/2026\/05\/alana-epstein-e1778096626155-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1401\/2026\/05\/alana-epstein-e1778096626155-700x1024.png 700w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1401\/2026\/05\/alana-epstein-e1778096626155-768x1124.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1401\/2026\/05\/alana-epstein-e1778096626155-1050x1536.png 1050w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1401\/2026\/05\/alana-epstein-e1778096626155-600x878.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Alana Epstein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alana Epstein, a doctoral student in the Audiology program at UNC-Chapel Hill, received the 2025 CIDD Trainee Research Award. Alana presented her research at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference in Washington, DC, in November 2025. Her presentation examined barriers to accessing audiological care, with a focus on understanding differences in how professionals and families of children with hearing loss in North Carolina perceive these challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alana Epstein, a doctoral student in the Audiology program at UNC-Chapel Hill, received the 2025 CIDD Trainee Research Award. Alana presented her research at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference in Washington, DC, in November 2025. Her presentation examined barriers to accessing audiological care, with a focus on understanding differences in how professionals and families of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/2026\/05\/06\/2025-cidd-trainee-research-award\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2025 CIDD Trainee Research Award\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":false,"featured_image_medium":false,"featured_image_medium_large":false,"featured_image_large":false,"featured_image_thumbnail":false,"featured_image_alt":false,"category_details":[{"name":"Uncategorized","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/category\/uncategorized\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}