New Directions was founded in 1998 to share important messages about brain development so that parents could take advantage of the critically important window of opportunity that occurs in infancy. The non-profit institution has become a foremost authority on early learning and is consulted by organizations across the nation.  In 2006, New Directions Institute merged with Arizona’s Children Association.  Arizona’s Children Association is the oldest and largest child welfare and behavioral health agency in the state and one of the largest in the country.

Neuroscientists from the finest research facilities in the United States are solving mysteries of language, mental processes and behavior by observing the brain at work and are adding to the existing body of psychological research on early development.  The new technology of PET scans and MRIs has made it possible for researchers to finally ‘look inside the brain’ while it is at work and actually see how the brain processes information.

Rapid Early Development:  These PET scans suggest that the brain of a one year old more closely resembles an adult's brain than a newborn's. Source: Dr. H. T. Chugani.

• Wired for Success® / S.T.E.P.S. to Early Brain Development developed and offered in partnership with Arizona Public Service (APS)
• ABC’s of Learning
• Parents as First Teachers
• Kinderprep

Classes for the New Directions Institute are taught by highly trained professionals with specialized knowledge and interest in the field of early brain development.

New Directions research-based curriculum relies on work from premier research facilities:

• University of California Los Angeles
• Yale Child Study Center
• Detroit Children's Hospital
• Harvard University
• University of California, Irvine
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

To stay abreast of neuroscience research, Dr. Stamm and key staff trainers attend and present at a number of scientific conferences in the area of brain development each year. 

New Directions Institute for Infant Brain Development
4500 N. 32nd. St., Suite 206
Phoenix, AZ  85018
602-371-1366
info@newdirectionsinstitute.org