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A validated developmental check-in. Not a pass/fail checklist — a clear read of where your child is in the sequence of development, and the skills opening up now.

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Example · 7-month-old
Developmental profile
✓ on track
Pace of development
slower
faster
the green band is the healthy range
Object exploration
7 of 12
Babbling
focus
Secure attachment
ahead
One number, on purpose. In the first year all areas move together — so a single pace reads honestly, where four separate scores would just add noise.3
Why this isn't another milestone checklist

A validated instrument — not a list someone wrote down.

74
skills across 4 developmental areas, birth to 6 years1
0.996
Cronbach's α — internal consistency, from 2,135 caregivers2
21,861
children in the Stanford analysis of how development unfolds3
P75
each skill's expected age set at the 75th percentile, per AAP practice2

Milestone lists are built from what a committee agrees on. This instrument was built from what hundreds of thousands of real children actually did — then tested for reliability, validated as a psychometric scale2, and analyzed with Stanford's Language and Cognition Lab to understand how developmental areas relate to each other over time3.

The finding that changed how we measure

In the first year, developmental areas move together so tightly that being ahead in one means being ahead in all of them. That coupling drops sharply across the first 12 months, and the areas begin to follow their own timelines.3 It's why a single, clear number is the honest read early on — and why separate area scores only start to mean something later.

The skills map

In the first year, everything develops as one thing. Then it expands.

Every skill has a window — the age range where it's actively developing. Early on those windows move together so tightly they behave like a single process. Around a year, they separate and each area starts keeping its own time.3

Skills developing at once
Kinedu Skills® map · 74 skills · 0–72 months1
15
open at 7 months
PhysicalCognitiveLanguageSocial-emotional ~12 months · areas separate birth 1 yr 2 yrs 3 yrs 6 yrs
first year: one coupled process Physical Cognitive Language Social-emotional
How it works

Three steps. No training needed.

1

Answer what you see

Plain questions about what the child already does — written to be answered by any caregiver, not a specialist.2

2

Get a real profile

Not a score out of ten. Where the child sits in the sequence, what's strong, and what's emerging next.

3

Know what to do

The profile points at the skills opening now — turning "are they behind?" into "what are they building?"

What you get

A roadmap, not a report card.

  • 1A clear profile of your child — pace, strengths, and what to focus on now.
  • ✓Anxiety turned into direction: “what is she building next?” instead of “is she behind?”
  • ↗A summary you can share with your pediatrician at the next visit.
  • ★The science behind every result — the why, not just the what.
Example · 7-month-old
Developmental profile
✓ on track
Pace of development
slower
faster
the green band is the healthy range
Object exploration
7 of 12
Babbling
focus
Secure attachment
ahead
One number, on purpose. In the first year all areas move together — so a single pace reads honestly, where four separate scores would just add noise.3
Pricing

Start where you are.

In the app
Free first assessment
  • Your first full assessment, free
  • Personalized daily activities
  • Milestone tracking as they grow
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Just the assessment
$9.99 one assessment
  • One full developmental profile
  • Strengths and what comes next
  • Shareable summary for your pediatrician
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Track the whole year
$39.99 per year
  • Monthly check-ins for a year
  • See how the pace changes over time
  • Every profile saved and comparable
Get monthly check-ins

Development only means something over time — monthly check-ins are how you see the pace change, not just a single snapshot.

What this is — and isn't. The Kinedu Assessment is a developmental surveillance tool: it surfaces a child's strengths and next steps. It is not a diagnostic instrument and does not identify developmental conditions or delays.2 If you have concerns about a child's development, speak with a pediatrician or qualified professional.
Sources. 1 Kinedu Skills® map, 0–72 months (74 skills; area windows as mapped internally). 2 Kinedu Initial Assessment scale construction & psychometric analysis — internal validation study, N=2,135 caregivers of children 0–55 months; Cronbach's α = .996; ages of acquisition set at the 75th percentile following AAP practice; items designed for untrained caregivers; milestone set drawn from AAP and CDC frameworks and peer-reviewed literature. 3 Stenhaug, B., Ram, N., & Frank, M. C. — The structure of developmental variation in early childhood (Stanford), analysing 21,861 children and 177,934 observations from Kinedu app data; finds within-person coupling between developmental factors decreases markedly over the first 12 months.
Illustrative figures in sample screens are examples, not results from any specific child, classroom or school.

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The validated science behind Kinedu — as a check-in you can take today.

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