; (ii) to conduct applied research related to services and outcomes; (iii) to provide technical assistance related to newborn, infant, and young childhood hearing screening, evaluation, and intervention programs, and information systems; (iv) to ensure high-quality monitoring of hearing screening, evaluation, and intervention programs and systems for newborns, infants, and young children; and (v) to coordinate developing standardized procedures for data management and assessing program and cost effectiveness. (B) Use of awards The awards under subparagraph (A) may be used— (i) to provide technical assistance on data collection and management; (ii) to study and report on the costs and effectiveness of newborn, infant, and young childhood hearing screening, evaluation, diagnosis, intervention programs, and systems in order to address issues of importance to State and national policy makers; (iii) to collect data and report on newborn, infant, and young childhood hearing screening, evaluation, diagnosis, and intervention programs and systems that can be used for applied research, program evaluation, and policy development; (iv) to identify the causes and risk factors for congenital hearing loss; (v) to study the effectiveness of newborn, infant, and young childhood hearing screening, audiologic evaluations, medical evaluations, and intervention programs and systems by assessing the health, intellectual and social developmental, cognitive, and hearing status of children at school age