Federal Grant Award Summary

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR, CFDA 93.433) awarded $249,479 to The Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Corporation on September 1, 2025, for a project grant extending through August 31, 2028. This award supports disability and rehabilitation research aimed at improving outcomes across employment, health and function, and community living and participation domains. The project includes a sub-award component to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, which contributes biostatistical analysis, neuropsychological expertise, research coordination, data collection, and knowledge translation activities—including the development of Spanish-language materials to ensure dissemination of findings to Spanish-speaking populations.

The research effort leverages multidisciplinary expertise, with key personnel including a biostatistician and population health researcher overseeing study design and statistical analyses, a neuropsychologist specializing in traumatic brain injury and behavioral disorders contributing to study design and data interpretation, and bilingual research coordinators managing recruitment, retention, data collection, and regulatory compliance. The project focuses on evidence-based practice translation and aims to generate findings with direct application to improving rehabilitation outcomes and service delivery models for individuals with disabilities.