For SPED directors & district teams
Your district's entire SPED workflow. One platform.
IEP compliance, service scheduling, Medicaid billing, student progress, and 504 plans — connected across 10 research-informed apps spanning birth through vocational transition, and built to work alongside the student-information system you already run.
Human-in-the-loop AI where research supports it; rule-based algorithms where evidence demands human judgment. PII-stripped before every LLM call for COPPA 2025 and FERPA compliance.
Who is IncluShift for?
Every stakeholder in the IEP lifecycle gets purpose-built tools — not one-size-fits-all software adapted from general education.
SPED Directors & Compliance Officers
IEP timeline tracking, MTSS distribution, Medicaid billing, Indicator 13 compliance, 504 plan management.
See IncluShift OSSuperintendents & District IT
Single SSO across 10 apps, zero-PII architecture, FERPA/COPPA compliance, one vendor contract.
See district solutionsTeachers & Related Service Providers
Adaptive math and literacy practice, behavior data collection, service session documentation, professional development.
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Home practice in math and reading, regulation strategies, IEP jargon translation, and an always-free parental rights library. Subscribe to a single subject or the IncluShift Thrive bundle.
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One-time practice passes for special-education certification and licensure exam prep — scenario-based practice items, no subscription. Specific exams and details live on the IncluTrain site.
See exam prepThe National Crisis
U.S. Special Education Infrastructure Is Failing. The Data Is Unambiguous.
The Educator Exodus
Special educators leave teaching at roughly twice the rate of their general-education peers (Gilmour & Wehby, 2020; Billingsley & Bettini, 2019). The top driver isn't salary — it's administrative burden. Observational research finds special educators spend a substantial share of class time on paperwork and compliance documentation (Vannest & Hagan-Burke, 2010). IncluShift streamlines compliance documentation so educators can return to instruction.
Gilmour, A.F. & Wehby, J.H. (2020). The association between teaching students with disabilities and teacher turnover. Journal of Educational Psychology, 112(5), 1042-1060. · Billingsley, B. & Bettini, E. (2019). Special education teacher attrition and retention. Review of Educational Research, 89(5), 697-744. · Vannest, K.J. & Hagan-Burke, S. (2010). Teacher time use in special education. Remedial and Special Education, 31(2), 126-142.
The Litigation Exposure
Federal data confirm special-education dispute resolution is a rapidly escalating liability. GAO-20-22 (2019) documented 35,142 IDEA disputes filed nationally in a single school year, with per-hearing combined legal fees of $50,000–$100,000 (Zirkel, 2012, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 23(1), 3–10). New York City alone reported due-process reimbursements rising from $161M (2012) to ~$918M (2022) to ~$1B (2023). IncluShift generates defensible, audit-ready compliance records in real time.
U.S. Government Accountability Office, GAO-20-22 (2019). Zirkel, P.A. (2012). J. Disability Policy Studies, 23(1), 3–10.
The Medicaid Gap
A 2024 HHS Office of Inspector General audit identified $551.4 million in improper school-based Medicaid claims in a single state, driven by unsupportable time studies and documentation gaps — a clawback risk for any district that bills without audit-ready records. Federal auditors have also documented that many districts leave eligible school-based Medicaid reimbursement unclaimed for lack of compliant documentation. IncluShift's IncluClaim module captures billable service data from intervention telemetry with CPT-compliant, audit-ready documentation — addressing both the clawback exposure and the unclaimed-revenue gap.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (2024).
The Standardization Crisis
7.5 million U.S. students receive IDEA services, yet intervention delivery varies wildly between classrooms, schools, and districts. Without standardized MTSS workflows, students in one building receive evidence-based Tier 2 support while students across the hall get none. IncluShift enforces fidelity at scale.
National Center for Education Statistics. (2024). Students with Disabilities. Condition of Education.
The Ecosystem
Ten Products. Three Tiers. One National Infrastructure.
A closed-loop, 3-Tier lifecycle architecture — from early intervention at birth through vocational independence — powered by the proprietaryIncluAccess™accessibility middleware.
The Student Journey
Birth through Vocational Transition · 7 Products
IncluMath™
CRA Fading & Cognitive Math Scaffolding
Interactive CRA (Concrete-Representational-Abstract) pedagogy with Frictionless Downgrades. Adaptive cognitive load management prevents math anxiety spirals in students who experience difficulty with mathematical concepts.
IncluLiteracy™
Science of Reading & Orthographic Mapping
Structured literacy with strict orthographic mapping sequences. Phonemic awareness, decoding, and fluency exercises mapped to IEP Tier 2/3 goals for students with reading difficulties, CVI, and language-based learning differences.
IncluVoice™
AI-Assisted Communication Support
AI-assisted communication support for nonverbal and minimally verbal learners. Predictive symbol sequencing (constrained transformer reranking over a fixed motor-plan vocabulary) reduces cognitive load and accelerates functional communication. Motor-plan positions are immutable; AI augments, never overrides.
IncluRegulate™
Self-Regulation & Social-Emotional Learning
Research-informed self-regulation with structured breathing protocols (Balban et al., 2023) plus social skills training through visual social stories, perspective-taking exercises, and social problem-solving scenarios. Telemetry syncs to district dashboards.
IncluManage™
Live PBIS Class & Household Behavior Management
PBIS group-contingency frameworks with configurable, adult-managed reinforcement schedules — a unified, research-informed behavior-support system for teachers and parents. (Token boards are an adult-configured tool, never a student-facing game.)
IncluSteps™
IDEA Part C Early Intervention (Ages 0-3)
Developmental milestone tracking and early intervention scaffolds for infants and toddlers within the federally mandated Part C framework. Identifies delays before school entry to maximize neuroplastic windows.
IncluPathway™
IDEA Indicator 13 Vocational Transition
Context-Aware Video Modeling with Errorless Learning for vocational independence. Tracks Prompt Dependency Fading and syncs to the OS Transition Hub for federal Age-16 compliance.
The Professional & Family Layer
Educators & Families · 2 Products
IncluBridge™
Trauma-Informed, AI-Translated Family-School Communication
Culturally responsive, trauma-informed communication platform that bridges the adversarial gap in IEP processes. AI-assisted real-time translation ensures every family — regardless of language or literacy — has equitable access to their child's educational planning.
IncluTrain™
Practice-Based Scenario Simulations for Special Education Teacher Training
Practice-Based Teacher Education (PBTE) through web-based, split-panel classroom scenario simulations with typed, rubric-scored responses. Pre-service and in-service educators practice de-escalation, IEP facilitation, and differentiated instruction in realistic scenarios — addressing the national SPED teacher shortage crisis.
The Enterprise Infrastructure
District Command Center · 1 Platform
IncluShift OS™
The federal compliance command center for district SPED teams. Every data point from every product across all three tiers flows into one district-wide intelligence layer.
Zero-Trust AI IEP Drafter
AI-assisted IEP generation where student PII never leaves the encryption boundary. Drafts professional-review-ready documents, designed to support IDEA requirements, from anonymized assessment tokens.
IDEA Liability Radar
Compliance-risk visibility across all schools. Surfaces IEP timeline, Child Find, and due-process exposure early so teams can act — documentation and monitoring support, not a prediction or guarantee.
IncluClaim™ Medicaid Billing
Medicaid billing support for IDEA-mandated services. Captures billable therapy minutes from telemetry data and generates audit-ready claim documentation aligned with CMS billing requirements — helping districts capture eligible reimbursement they would otherwise leave unclaimed.
Why IncluShift
A different layer in your special-education stack.
Districts already run a student-information system and a compliance suite. IncluShift doesn't replace them — it's the student- and family-facing intervention layer that plugs into what you already have, built privacy-first from the ground up.
Privacy by design, not by policy
Student work — reading, communication, practice — stays on the device. Identity is an anonymous ID, and personal details are stripped before any external call, so there's no central store of identifiable IEP data to expose. As centralized student-data breaches become a documented procurement concern, data minimization is a structural advantage, not a setting.
Built for the student and family — not just the file
Records systems describe students; IncluShift works with them. Adaptive math and literacy, communication support, self-regulation, behavior support, transition planning, early intervention, and plain-language family communication — direct, hands-on surfaces a compliance system was never meant to provide.
The rare one a family can use at home
Almost nothing a district licenses is something a parent can get directly. IncluShift is — IEP-jargon translation, a child's communication app, and transition planning are always free, with an affordable bundle for the rest. No ads, ever.
Accessible to the standard, ahead of the deadline
Switch scanning, dwell and eye-gaze input, and fatigue-aware pacing target WCAG 2.2 AAA across student-facing flows — well above the WCAG 2.1 AA floor the ADA Title II web rule sets for public schools, with compliance dates in 2027 and 2028.
One integrated layer instead of a stack of point tools
Academics, communication, regulation, behavior, and transition live in one connected layer — the student-facing slice that would otherwise mean separate logins, vendors, and invoices. It adds to the systems you run; it doesn't replace them.
Research Foundation
Grounded in Peer-Reviewed Research. Aligned with IDEA Standards.
The IncluShift ecosystem is built on peer-reviewed research frameworks from special education, cognitive science, and assistive technology.
Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
Every IncluShift tool is structured around MTSS — enabling educators to deliver Tier 1 universal screening, Tier 2 targeted intervention, and Tier 3 intensive individualized support with documented fidelity.
Kittelman, A. et al. (2025). Factors predicting sustained Tier 2/3 PBIS implementation. Exceptional Children, 91(2).
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Interfaces are engineered with CAST's UDL Guidelines 3.0 at the core — providing multiple means of engagement, representation, and action/expression. Every product natively supports the IncluAccess engine for switch/dwell/eye-gaze input.
CAST. (2024). Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 3.0.
IDEA Compliance
Built to exceed IDEA documentation standards across Part B and Part C. Audit-ready records satisfy state reporting requirements, due process safeguards, and Indicator 13 transition planning mandates.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. §1400 et seq. (2004).
Cognitive Load Theory
All student-facing interfaces apply Sweller's CLT framework — extraneous load is eliminated, intrinsic load is managed through scaffolding, and germane load is optimized for durable schema acquisition.
Powell, S. R. et al. (2025). Leveraging cognitive load theory for students with math difficulty. Educational Psychologist, 60(3).
Assistive Technology Standards
The IncluAccess engine is engineered to WCAG 2.2 AA, with AAA targets, and multi-modal input capture — switch scanning, dwell selection, and eye-gaze tracking — plus Motor Fatigue Degradation monitoring to prevent overexertion.
Lancioni, G. E. et al. (2020). AT to support communication and daily living. Int. Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 66(3).
Research-Informed Practice Standards
Every intervention protocol in the ecosystem is informed by What Works Clearinghouse standards and CEC practice criteria. Research is mapped to specific IEP goal domains.
Council for Exceptional Children. Standards for Evidence-Based Practices in Special Education.
Responsible AI Architecture
AI-assisted features run behind three architectural guardrails: deterministic PII-stripping before every LLM call (COPPA 2025- and FERPA-aligned by construction), mandatory human-in-the-loop on IEP drafts and scenario evaluation, and constrained prompts with output validation (≥95 % decodability, forbidden-token regex blocking diagnostic labels). Five of ten products use AI; five do not, because the peer-reviewed evidence base does not yet support it there.
U.S. Dept. of Education (July 2024). Designing for Education with Artificial Intelligence: An Essential Guide for Developers. Office of Educational Technology.
Durable in the AI era
Built for the part of special education AI can't take over
As general-purpose AI gets better, the work that stays hard — and stays human — is exactly where IncluShift lives.
A general chatbot isn't safe in this room
The same research that shows unguarded AI raising a quiz score also shows it leaving students worse off once the help disappears — and shows open chatbots failing outright when a young person is in crisis. IncluShift keeps generative AI off the student, clinical, and crisis paths entirely; the tools children touch run on constrained, research-grounded algorithms, not a live model.
The law keeps a human in the chair
Under IDEA, eligibility and placement are decisions a team of professionals and the family make together, and federal guidance warns that AI-drafted plans pushed through without human review can deny a student a free, appropriate education. Our AI drafts paperwork and surfaces patterns for adults to review — it never decides.
The model is replaceable. The record isn't.
What a competitor's next model upgrade can't hand them is years of FERPA, COPPA, and IDEA alignment built into the architecture, student data that never leaves the device, peer-reviewed clinical engines, and the connected record of interventions, services, and compliance a district builds on top of the systems it already runs. A better chatbot makes that record more valuable to build on — not easier to walk away from.
Safe by design
Safety isn't a footnote. It's the design.
The same choices that make IncluShift safe for a child in crisis make it defensible for a district. We earn engagement through warmth, clarity, and mastery — never reward currency or competition.
What we leave out — on purpose
- No advertising. Ever. (A COPPA requirement, not a preference.)
- No points, coins, streaks, or leaderboards — reward currency undermines motivation, and the effect is larger for children.
- No flashing, autoplay, or surprise motion; every animation respects the "reduce motion" setting.
- No generative AI in the student, clinical, or crisis path — those run on constrained, rule-based logic.
- No personally identifiable student data leaving the device in identifiable form.
What we build in
- Works with a switch, dwell, eye-gaze, or AAC — accessibility woven in, not bolted on (the IncluAccess engine).
- A person reviews every AI-drafted IEP or evaluation — the AI drafts, people decide.
- Zero-PII and device-local by default; UUID-only student records.
- An append-only audit trail and FERPA-aligned data architecture, ready for procurement review.
- Progress is mastery-based and private — never timed, ranked, or compared between students.
A Note from the Founder
Davit Janunts
Founder
The U.S. special-education system wasn't built for the 7.5 million students inside it. It should have been. I spent a decade in classrooms, earned an M.Ed. in Special Education at Lehigh on a Fulbright, co-authored peer-reviewed research in Exceptional Children, and built IncluShift to close that gap.
— Davit