A standard proven, not asserted.

01 The validation

AbilityScore®, validated against the field's established instruments.

Benchmarked against the instruments clinicians already trust — independently, and published for anyone to check.

AbilityScore® — the 0–1000 developmental measure built by the Alliance's Anchor — was validated by an independent contract research organisation against the instruments clinicians already trust.

• Comparators — Vineland-3, CARS-2, Bayley-4 and ABAS-3 — the established standards in developmental assessment.
• Sample & CRO — n = 300, with n = 60 test–retest; independent CRO Manentia Research; Protocol BHCL-VAL-2026-001.
• Methodology — 25 assessments, 339 skills, 148 abilities — a structured, computational developmental measure.
• Published & citable — two peer-anchored preprints on Zenodo, with DOIs, openly licensed.

03 The Research Council

A governed commons for the whole field.

The Research Council stewards a shared evidence base: joint ethics infrastructure, FAIR data principles, and Indian-author scholarship encouraged under the RCI's 2025 reforms. It is built on ICMR National Ethical Guidelines, GCP, the Declaration of Helsinki, CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA, and HL7-FHIR, ICD-11, ICHI and SNOMED CT.

Member researchers and faculty co-publish into this commons — turning a fragmented field into one that learns from itself at national scale.