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Developmental insight for every child in your school.

One validated check-in across every classroom, so each child gets a real developmental profile — and your team can see the whole picture without adding hours of work.

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For preschools, daycares, early-stimulation centers and school networks.
Example · Sala Azul · 18–24 months
Classroom view
14 of 14 assessed
on track (10) watch (3) pending (1)
Physical
on track
Language
group focus
Every tile is a child. The group view is a way in — the value is the individual profile behind each one.
Why this isn't another milestone checklist

A validated instrument — not a list someone wrote down.

Four developmental areas are assessed: Physical, Cognitive, Language & Literacy and Social & Emotional — the same four the Stanford analysis is built on.3

49
skills across 4 developmental areas, birth to 4 years1
0.996
Cronbach's α — internal consistency, from 2,135 caregivers2
422
observable milestones in the validated instrument1
67%
of variance explained by the model — above the 60% bar in social science1
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
11M
families have used Kinedu4
FOI
member of Frontiers of Innovation at Harvard's Center on the Developing Child5

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 · 49 validated skills · 0–48 months1
15
open at 7 months
~12 months the areas separate one process Physical Cognitive Language Social-emotional birth 1 yr 2 yrs 3 yrs 4 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?"

Why the check-in changes as they grow

Some skills hand off. Others accumulate.

A skill's window isn't just when it appears — it's when it's actively being built. Some skills are stepping stones that get replaced by something more advanced. Others, once gained, stay for life. The check-in knows the difference, and stops asking about what a child has already moved past.

hands off →

Babbling · 1–9 months

Babbling is built early, then hands off to First words (11–30 months). Babbling doesn't disappear because something went wrong — it recedes because it has been replaced by speech. Once a child talks, we stop asking whether she babbles.

accumulates ↗

Walking · 15–39 months

Walking has no successor. Once a child walks she keeps walking — the skill refines into running, stairs and jumping rather than being handed off. Its window stays open far longer, because there's always a next level of the same thing.

This is why a check-in beats a checklist: a list keeps asking about milestones a child has already outgrown. The check-in only ever asks about the windows that are open right now.
What you get

Every child seen. The whole school understood.

  • ◎A real developmental profile for every child — the same validated instrument school-wide.2
  • ▦Classroom and school views that make patterns visible without extra work.
  • !Early signals on which children deserve a closer look — surveillance, never labels.2
  • ✉Parent-ready summaries that make every conversation easier and more credible.
Example · Sala Azul · 18–24 months
Classroom view
14 of 14 assessed
on track (10) watch (3) pending (1)
Physical
on track
Language
group focus
Every tile is a child. The group view is a way in — the value is the individual profile behind each one.
Pricing

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Pilot
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  • Full profiles for every child
  • See the value before committing
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Per school
  • Every classroom, every child
  • School-wide view and reporting
  • Parent summaries included
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  • Multiple sites and regions
  • Benchmarking across schools
  • Admin, roles and reporting
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The aggregate view is a lens, not the point — the value is the individual profile behind every tile.

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 Initial Assessment — validated instrument: 49 skills, 422 milestones, ages 0–48 months; total variance explained 67.46% (a TVE above 60% is considered a sound basis for a model in the social sciences). The Kinedu Skills® map has since been extended beyond this set; figures on this page refer to the validated instrument. 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; premature ages corrected with the AAP equation; items written for untrained caregivers; milestone set drawn from AAP and CDC frameworks and peer-reviewed literature. Surveillance instrument — explicitly not for diagnosis. 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; within-person coupling between developmental factors decreases markedly across the first 12 months. 4 Kinedu, families served to date (kinedu.com). 5 Kinedu is a member of the Frontiers of Innovation community at Harvard's Center on the Developing Child, and a founding member of the Aceleradora de Innovación para la Primera Infancia, an FOI innovation cluster for Mexico.
Illustrative figures in sample screens are examples, not results from any specific child, group or school.

Every child in your school,
seen clearly.

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

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