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 11 research-informed apps spanning birth through vocational transition.
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 OS →Teachers & Related Service Providers
Adaptive math and literacy practice, behavior data collection, service session documentation, professional development.
See classroom tools →Parents & Families
Home practice in math and reading, regulation strategies, IEP jargon translation, parental rights library.
See family tools →Superintendents & District IT
Single SSO across 11 apps, zero-PII architecture, FERPA/COPPA compliance, one vendor contract.
See district solutions →The National Crisis
U.S. Special Education Infrastructure Is Failing. The Data Is Unambiguous.
The Educator Exodus
Nearly half of special education teachers leave the profession within five years (Billingsley & Bettini, 2019). The top driver isn't salary — it's administrative burden. Observational research finds special educators spend approximately 17% of their workday — roughly 5-7 hours per week — on paperwork and compliance documentation (Vannest & Hagan-Burke, 2010). IncluShift automates compliance documentation so educators can return to instruction.
Billingsley, B. & Bettini, E. (2019). Special Education Teacher Attrition and Retention. Review of Educational Research, 89(5). · 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
The HHS Office of Inspector General (2024) identified $551.4 million in improper school-based Medicaid claims driven by CPT documentation gaps — the flip side of widespread under-claiming. The Government Accountability Office (GAO-23-105250, 2023) has documented substantial untapped school-based Medicaid reimbursement potential. IncluShift's IncluClaim module captures billable service data from intervention telemetry automatically with CPT-compliant documentation.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (2024); Government Accountability Office, GAO-23-105250 (2023).
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 two proprietary engines: IncluAccess™ and BehaviorTrack™.
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-Powered Communication Support
AI-powered communication support tool for nonverbal and minimally verbal learners. Predictive symbol sequencing reduces cognitive load and accelerates functional communication.
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 live token economies. Configurable reinforcement schedules give teachers and parents a unified research-informed behavior shaping system.
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-powered real-time translation ensures every family — regardless of language or literacy — has equitable access to their child's educational planning.
IncluTrain™
PBTE AI VR Simulators for Special Education Teacher Training
Practice-Based Teacher Education (PBTE) through AI-powered VR classroom simulations. 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 legally defensible, IDEA-compliant documents from anonymized assessment tokens.
IDEA Liability Radar
Real-time compliance risk scoring across all schools. Identifies IEP timeline violations, Child Find gaps, and due process exposure before they become litigation events.
IncluClaim™ Medicaid Billing
Automated Medicaid reimbursement for IDEA-mandated services. Captures billable therapy minutes from telemetry data and generates CMS-compliant claims — recovering millions in untapped federal revenue for districts.
Research Foundation
Grounded in Peer-Reviewed Research. Aligned with IDEA Standards.
The IncluShift ecosystem is built on peer-reviewed research frameworks validated through decades of empirical study in 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 2.2 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. (2018). Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 2.2.
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 implements WCAG 2.2 AAA conformance with multi-modal input capture — switch scanning, dwell selection, and eye-gaze tracking — with 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.
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