AI’s Potential in Child Development

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming healthcare—and pediatric occupational therapy is no exception.

This course aims to spark your imagination about AI’s potential to strengthen how we support child development. From enhancing your assessments with rich data to making interventions more accessible, AI holds promise for both clinicians and families. This course offers insights into how these innovations are beginning to reshape early childhood developmental support.

In this OT Potential live webinar and podcast episode, we welcome Mati Kochavi, founder of Korro AI, to explore the opportunities and challenges of applying AI to your therapy practice. You’ll learn how AI can complement clinical judgment and data tracking, improve the accuracy of milestone monitoring, and provide real-time support for families.

By the end of the course, you’ll have a grounded understanding of AI’s potential in positively supporting child development—and the practical and ethical considerations that therapists must weigh as these tools move into practice.

Whether you are cautiously curious or already excited about integrating AI into your pediatric work, this course will equip you with the knowledge you need to engage confidently with these innovations.

1. You will recognize how emerging AI tools are being applied to monitor and support developmental milestones in pediatric practice.

2. You will be able to identify practical considerations—including ethics and data integrity—when evaluating AI technologies for occupational therapy intervention.

• Welcome & Introduction

  • Looking at your career, it feels like you could have turned your attention anywhere. How did you become so invested in childhood development and occupational therapy?

• The Big Idea

  • Tell me the possibilities you saw with merging AI and pediatric OT that drew you into this space.

  • When you think about the future, even 1 year from now, what is your vision for what we can achieve with this collaboration between the occupational therapy practitioner and their AI partner?

• Complementing the Role of the Therapist

  • OTs play such an important role with supporting children with developmental milestones related to ADLs. I was wondering if you could share how AI platforms like Korro are already being used by therapists.

  • I am sure you have many stories to share, but is there one you would that comes to mind now that you would like to share?

• AI and Motion Tracking and Movement/Physical Development Milestones (Body)

  • I think for OTs, one the most exciting application with AI is in the idea of motion tracking or what’s technically called computer vision. Can you give me an understanding of the landscape of what’s currently possible?

• AI and Problem Solving / Cognitive Milestone (Brain) 

  • I can certainly imagine platforms like Korro support problem solving skills and other cognitive milestones. What do you see as being currently possible on this front?

  • How do you see platforms like Korro transforming how children with diagnoses like ADHD and Autism are able to move through these developmental milestones and acquire these skills?

• AI and Socio-Emotional Milestones (Behavior) 

  • I think a harder area to wrap our minds around the use of AI is in socio-emotional development. (Because we so often associate screen-time with being a detriment.) But, I know there are also possibilities on this front. How do you see AI and platforms like Korro using socio-emotional interventions to improve overall childhood development?

• Ethics

  • What ethical considerations should therapists keep in mind when using AI in pediatric practice?

• Bridging the Gap with Parents and the Public

  • How do you see AI tools helping us communicate the value of OT to parents and to the public?

• Implementation in OT Practice

  • What practical steps would you recommend to OTs who are interested in exploring AI for monitoring progress and helping support childhood development.

• Live Q&A

• Final Reflections & Predictions

  • Looking ahead, what predictions do you have about the future role of AI in developmental milestones and pediatric therapy?

• Artificial intelligence in child development monitoring: A systematic review on usage, outcomes, and acceptance

• Deep learning empowered sensor fusion boosts infant movement classification

• An analysis of the real-world performance of an artificial intelligence-based autism diagnostic

It is the policy of OT Potential to disclose any financial and non-financial interest the provider or instructor may have in a product or service mentioned during an activity. This is to ensure that the audience is made aware of any bias of the speaker.

OT Potential typically pays guest speakers an honorarium for their participation, either directly or to an institution of the speaker's choosing at their request. No honorarium was paid in connection with this course; financial support flowed the other direction, as described below. We invite guests whose expertise often comes from practices, programs, or building products in their field. Where a speaker has a financial interest in the subject of a course, we disclose it below so you can weigh it for yourself.

OT Potential's interest in this topic: Korro AI financially supported the creation of this course. Korro AI had no editorial control over the course content, learning objectives, or research selection.

Speaker interests: Mati Kochavi is the founder of Korro AI and has a financial interest in the adoption of the AI tools discussed in this course.