Cognoa | Blogspot: March 2019

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Cognoa Teams with LEARN Behavioral to Support Earlier Autism Diagnoses

Cognoa’s AI-based app provides parents with a new tool to foster optimum well-being for their families. Cognoa recently became partners with LEARN Behavioral, which will enable the Cognoa Child Development app to reach the hands of more families.

LEARN Behavioral is a network of providers of healthcare services for children on the autism spectrum and for children with other special needs. Every year, thousands of families nationwide have their children’s needs met through a LEARN Behavioral provider.

With the Cognoa Child Development app now available to LEARN Behavioral, parents can conduct an initial child development screening to help inform them of their child’s developmental health - as well as risks for development delay - and guide them through towards an expedited diagnosis, if needed. Cognoa’s solution has the potential to improve today’s standard of care where most children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder after the age of 4 years - past the optimum window of opportunity for intervention programs to achieve the most success.

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One in six children in the U.S. has some form of development delay. The Centers for Disease Control has determined that the average age a parent notices the signs and symptoms of developmental delay is often as young as 12 months, but they are not diagnosed until 3 or 4. Children who consistently miss milestones in key areas of development (social, emotional, physical, cognitive, language) may be at risk for a developmental delay, including autism.

Cognoa's app helps every parent find out if their child’s development is on track and get the right help as early as possible. A parent answers simple questions and uploads two short videos of their child's behavior. Cognoa’s app then determines whether the child is at risk for developmental delay or autism using machine learning algorithms Dr. Dennis Wall developed at Harvard and Stanford Medical Schools. Cognoa provides a personalized report parents can share with their doctor that identifies specific areas where the child is doing well in addition to areas where the child might need early or rapid intervention. Cognoa also provides personalized next steps, including activities recommendations that integrate on-going monitoring.

Our machine learning scoring system has been validated using several large archival repositories containing data on over 10,000 families with different types of developmental delay and/or autism spectrum disorder. The scoring system has also been validated in a prospective clinical validation study, with two additional multi-site studies underway. The sensitivity and specificity values for the system currently range from 90-97% and 80-94% respectively.