An innovative digital health startup, Cognoa offers parents a cutting-edge app that assesses child development. Through Cognoa, parents are able to gain insight into key questions surrounding their children’s behaviors and whether they are typical or indicate cause for concern. Through providing a measurement of development, Cognoa enables parents to position their interactions in ways that meet the needs of their growing children.

Cognoa already stands as one of the leaders in child development screening and has employed data from more than 10,000 children in creating its platform. Cognoa builds on five years of dedicated research work by Dennis Wall, PhD, at institutions such as Stanford Medical School and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wall worked with a team at Harvard that employed machine learning and a statistical method that enables complex data patterns to be identified and utilized in various algorithms. Cognoa has recently launched an Activities feature that provides families with a set of new home-based activities each week to encourage them to develop productive skills and behaviors.