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About IncluShift

IncluShift, Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated educational technology company building a unified software platform aligned to IDEA Part B, Part C, and Section 504 — a ten-product, research-informed ecosystem designed to reduce educator documentation burden, support district compliance monitoring, and provide learners with instruction grounded in peer-reviewed research.

Mission

7.5 million American students receive special education services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Yet the infrastructure supporting these students — the IEP documentation, the intervention tracking, the compliance reporting, the family communication — remains fragmented across dozens of disconnected tools, paper binders, and spreadsheets.

IncluShift exists to replace that fragmentation with one standards-aligned platform. From early intervention at birth through vocational independence, from the student's device to the superintendent's dashboard — every data point, every intervention, every compliance record flows through a single, FERPA-compliant, research-informed ecosystem.

Core Values

Research-Informed

Every product is grounded in peer-reviewed research. We do not ship features without a peer-reviewed citation trail.

Privacy-First

Zero-PII architecture. No analytics on our website. No tracking in our products. FERPA and COPPA compliant by design.

Accessibility-Forward

WCAG 2.2 AA conformant, with AAA-target on student-facing flows. Universal input support via the IncluAccess engine. Accessibility is a feature, not an afterthought.

Educator-Centered

Built by special educators, for special educators. Every design decision asks: does this reduce teacher burden?

Founder & CEO

Davit Janunts

Davit Janunts, founder of IncluShift, holds a Master of Education in Special Education from Lehigh University (2020) as a Fulbright Foreign Student Program grantee, and is a listed co-author on a peer-reviewed systematic review published in Exceptional Children — the flagship journal of the Council for Exceptional Children (Morin et al., 2024, 90(2), 126–147; doi.org/10.1177/00144029231165506).

He has also completed the Edmund S. Muskie Internship Program (administered by Cultural Vistas) and the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Program (administered by IREX). At Lehigh he worked as a graduate research assistant under Dr. Kristi Morin, Ph.D., BCBA-D, and completed the What Works Clearinghouse Group Design Standards training (Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, 2020).

Years of classroom teaching — in rural Armenia and at the Yerevan N2 Territorial Pedagogical-Psychological Support Center, where he developed individualized plans for over thirty students with complex learning and behavioral needs — exposed him to the documentation burden peer-reviewed in Vannest & Hagan-Burke (2010, Remedial and Special Education, 31(2), 126–142). IncluShift — ten integrated applications and twenty-plus shared engine and infrastructure packages — is his answer to it.

Credentials

Training & Recognition

Fulbright Alumnus · 3× U.S. Dept of State–sponsored Exchange (Fulbright · Muskie · Fulbright TEA)
M.Ed. Special Education, Lehigh University (2020)
Peer-reviewed co-author · Exceptional Children (2024)
WWC Group Design Standards Training · IES (U.S. Dept of Education, 2020)

Evidence Base

Research Foundations

IncluShift implements peer-reviewed research from leading special-education and learning-science scholars. Selected foundational authors whose work is embedded in the product specifications:

Linnea C. Ehri

Science of Reading · IncluLiteracy

Orthographic mapping and the four phases of sight-word reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 18(1), 5–21 (2014).

Philip I. Pavlik Jr.

Adaptive Algorithms · IncluMath, IncluLiteracy

Performance Factor Analysis — an alternative to knowledge tracing. Proc. AIED 2009.

Melis Yilmaz Balban et al.

Autonomic Regulation · IncluRegulate

Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal. Cell Reports Medicine, 4(1), 100895 (2023).

Michael L. Wehmeyer

Self-Determination · IncluPathway

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Disability (2012); Shogren et al., Remedial & Special Education (2015).

Banajee, DiCarlo & Stricklin

Core Vocabulary AAC · IncluVoice

Core vocabulary determination for toddlers. AAC Journal, 19(2), 67–73 (2003).

Edward G. Carr et al.

Positive Behavior Support · IncluManage

Positive behavior support: evolution of an applied science. J Positive Behavior Interventions, 4(1), 4–16 (2002).

Dunst, Trivette & Hamby

Caregiver Capacity-Building · IncluSteps

Meta-analysis of family-centered helpgiving practices. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews (2007).

SAMHSA (U.S. HHS)

Trauma-Informed Care · IncluBridge, IncluRegulate

SAMHSA's Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach. HHS Pub. No. (SMA) 14–4884 (2014).

Kristi L. Morin et al.

Single-Case Research Methodology · Cross-product

Nonconcurrent multiple-baseline and multiple-probe designs in special education. Exceptional Children, 90(2), 126–147 (2024). Co-authored by Davit Janunts.