Evidence for the children the instruments forgot.
CCAN develops culturally-valid assessment methods and the evidence behind them, so that neurodevelopmental understanding is accurate, fair, and usable in real-world settings.
Where we concentrate.
Culturally-valid instruments
Designing and validating assessment tools normed for multilingual, low-resource, and high-adversity populations.
Neurodevelopment in context
The impact of malaria, perinatal HIV, sickle-cell, malnutrition, and adversity on the developing brain.
Strengths-based profiling
Methods that capture capability and support need together, guiding intervention without requiring a diagnostic label.
The AFRICNA & GLOCNA framework.
Multi-informant assessment across 12 domains
A modular framework across five developmental age bands, integrating caregiver, teacher, child, and clinician report with direct tasks and structured observation.
Context risk & protection profiling
Social determinants, adverse experiences, and protective factors scored as active variables that shape every profile.
Functional intervention profiles
Eight profile-based intervention plans across three delivery tiers, with built-in referral-urgency triage for low-specialist settings.
Partner with our research.
We welcome collaboration with universities, clinics, ministries, and NGOs working on child neurodevelopment in under-served contexts — from validation studies to field implementation.
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Research that reaches the child.
Collaborate with CCAN on the instruments and evidence that make fair assessment possible everywhere.