Safety & ethics
Well-being, dignity, assent, consent, privacy, and long-term interests come first.
INFANCY connects clinicians, researchers, innovators, educators, families, and advocates to strengthen evidence, improve standards, expand access, and advance quality of life for neuroatypical children and youth worldwide.

Research, practice, education, technology, advocacy, and global collaboration must advance together.

Generate and translate rigorous evidence to guide safe, effective pediatric neuromodulation.
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Advance evidence-informed standards, multidisciplinary care, and measurable quality.
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Equip professionals, trainees, families, and advocates with trusted lifelong learning.
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Support responsible development of emerging neuromodulation technologies.
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Champion equitable access, informed policy, and meaningful family partnership.
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Build a diverse international network that shares expertise and opportunity.
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Find standards, implementation tools, learning, and multidisciplinary peers.
Follow this pathway →02For researchers & engineersConnect with studies, priorities, working groups, methods, and global partners.
Follow this pathway →03For families & advocatesAccess plain-language information, questions to ask, and ways to shape the field.
Follow this pathway →04For traineesExplore foundational learning, mentorship, cases, and early-career opportunities.
Follow this pathway →INFANCY is being designed around work that produces useful, transparent outcomes for the field.
Interdisciplinary experts move priority questions from discussion to defined, time-bound action.
Collaborative studies and registries strengthen the pediatric evidence base across settings and regions.
Consensus-building and practical guidance support safe, ethical, and consistent implementation.
Children and youth are not simply smaller adults. Their developing nervous systems require thoughtful adaptation of evidence, devices, dosing, consent, monitoring, and long-term follow-up.
Read our mission and values →Well-being, dignity, assent, consent, privacy, and long-term interests come first.
We disclose relationships, identify uncertainty, and correct errors responsibly.
We value neurodiversity, lived experience, cultural context, accessibility, and global participation.
INFANCY will publish validated measures of reach, participation, learning, and practical change as the founding network grows.
Representation across regions, disciplines, and resource settings.
Reported annuallyCollaborative work that advances trustworthy pediatric evidence.
Verified portfolioEducation that builds responsible, developmentally aware practice.
Measured participationPractical efforts to reduce barriers for children and families.
Outcomes disclosedFounding indicators will be published after definitions, baselines, and reporting responsibilities are approved through INFANCY governance.
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