Project Grant R01DC022886
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Father Flanagan's Boys' Home $681,606 on September 1, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to investigate functional spatial hearing in pediatrically implanted bilateral cochlear implant users exposed to reverberant real-world listening environments. The funded research examines how reverberation and cochlear implant signal processing jointly affect spatial...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Father Flanagan's Boys' Home $213,915 under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) on July 1, 2026, to investigate device candidacy in children with moderate-to-severe bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. The research program addresses a clinical gap: current evidence supports hearing aids for mild-to-moderate loss and cochlear implants for severe-to-profound loss, but device...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, a division of the National Institutes of Health under the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded Father Flanagan's Boys' Home $350,000 on July 8, 2026, under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859). The award funds research to develop and validate an assessment tool for measuring variability in acoustic access to speech cues across frequency bands in cochlear implant users. The recipient...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Father Flanagan's Boys' Home $134,495 on July 10, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The award funds a K01 Career Development Award project investigating neural dynamics underlying speech processing in children with unilateral hearing loss. The research characterizes behavioral speech perception in the normal-hearing ear of affected children and examines...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Father Flanagan's Boys' Home $706,494 on July 1, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to investigate audiological rehabilitation and spatial hearing outcomes in children with unilateral hearing loss. The research addresses why individual children with unilateral hearing loss experience widely varying developmental outcomes despite similar degrees of hearing loss....
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Father Flanagan's Boys' Home $707,126 on May 4, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to investigate hearing loss prognosis and long-term developmental outcomes in children with otitis media with effusion. The research addresses clinical decision-making gaps regarding treatment versus observation of OME, which causes conductive hearing loss varying substantially...
- This Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders totaling $127,244.81 was awarded on March 10, 2021 to Father Flanagan's Boys' Home to fund research related to prediction processes in children with developmental language disorder. The award supports research aligned with the objectives of the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Father Flanagan's Boys' Home received a $611,625 Project Grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028. The award funds investigative research designed to advance understanding of sentence prediction deficits in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), a condition...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded the University of Wisconsin - Madison $1,166,250 on September 16, 2025, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to investigate cortical population coding and network effects of cochlear implant stimulation during behavioral tasks. The research addresses gaps in understanding why cochlear implant outcomes vary significantly among users, despite over one million people...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded The Johns Hopkins University $194,270 on May 11, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to investigate the development of auditory thalamocortical circuits and how they are altered in cases of congenital deafness. The project will establish a foundational understanding of how the thalamus and auditory cortex develop and mature through sensory experience, with...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Father Flanagan's Boys' Home $656,908 on August 1, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to model adolescent reading in children who use cochlear implants or hearing aids. The research examines the relationship between early oral language, phonological processing, and print knowledge with literacy achievement for deaf and hard of hearing children developing spoken language through amplification. The study addresses a documented gap: deaf and hard of hearing children exhibit delayed literacy skills compared to hearing peers, with performance deceleration beginning around fourth grade. Reading outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing children are worse than for hearing children with reading disabilities. Although cochlear implants and hearing aids have advanced, language and literacy outcomes remain more variable for deaf and hard of hearing than hearing populations. The research seeks to identify which deaf and hard of hearing children face the greatest risk for language and literacy deficits, develop better screening methods, and advance theoretical understanding of literacy development in this population beyond the elementary years, when academic curricula shift from teaching reading to assuming skilled reading ability. The work is performed in Omaha, Nebraska, with a period of performance from August 1, 2026, through June 30, 2031. The assistance type is a Project Grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $656.9k | 8/4/26 |