Project Grant R01DC023375
- 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...
- 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 $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 $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 $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...
- The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded The Johns Hopkins University $654,879 on July 17, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to investigate cortical representations of electrical stimulation in cochlear implant recipients. The research elucidates fundamental neural coding and plasticity mechanisms responsible for cortical processing of cochlear implant signals. The project employs optical imaging and...
- 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 The Ohio State University $664,740 on August 15, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to investigate neural encoding and auditory perception in cochlear implant users. The research addresses two unresolved issues in cochlear implantation: substantial variation in clinical outcomes among implant users and widespread difficulty understanding speech in complex...
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 hearing in two cohorts of pediatrically implanted bilateral cochlear implant recipients: children and young adults aged 8–20 years with inter-implantation duration less than 24 months, and adults aged 20–30 years with inter-implantation duration more than 24 months. The study assesses auditory image perception, spatial acuity, and spatial unmasking using psychophysical methods and ecologically valid reverberant simulations, with normal-hearing children and adults providing comparison data. The research focuses on how decorrelated interaural signals coupled with cochlear implant processing affect auditory function in developmental and mature populations. Performance of work takes place in Omaha, Nebraska. The period of performance runs from September 1, 2026, through June 30, 2031. This is a Project Grant, the primary assistance type under the NIDCD Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program, supporting direct research costs including salaries, equipment, supplies, and travel.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $681.6k | 8/21/26 |