Research & Policy Hub — Research-Informed Resources for Special Education
The IncluShift Research & Policy Hub is a curated, peer-reviewed-cited resource for IEP teams, SPED directors, researchers, and families working under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. §1400 et seq.). Every definition, regulation summary, and research deep-dive carries inline citations to primary sources — federal regulations, RCTs, and systematic reviews — and is maintained to reflect current U.S. law and the 2024-2026 update cycle.
Curated by Davit Janunts, M.Ed. Special Education (Lehigh University — Fulbright Foreign Student Program), peer-reviewed co-author in Exceptional Children (Morin, Janunts, et al. 2024, 90(2):145-163; doi:10.1177/00144029231165506).
Primary-source summaries of the federal laws governing U.S. special education
IDEA Part B
Ages 3-21 special education under 34 CFR Part 300.
IDEA Part C
Infants and toddlers (0-3) early intervention under 34 CFR Part 303.
Section 504
Rehabilitation Act disability discrimination protections.
FERPA
Federal student-records privacy under 34 CFR Part 99.
COPPA 2025 Amendments
FTC children's privacy rule — April 2026 effective date.
ADA Title II (2024 DOJ Rule)
Web accessibility compliance — April 2026 deadline.
Pillar pages on the foundational frameworks of modern SPED practice
Each deep-dive is a 1,500-2,500-word synthesis of peer-reviewed evidence, written in an answer-first structure and cited inline so AI assistants can extract and attribute passages accurately.
Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
Three-tier prevention framework integrating academic (RTI) and behavior (PBIS) supports. 2026 guide with evidence base and implementation roadmap.
CRA Framework in Math Intervention
Concrete-Representational-Abstract sequence for students with math learning disabilities. Tau-BC = 0.9965 across 30 single-case studies.
Science of Reading: Structured Literacy Explained
Orthographic mapping, systematic phonics, and the 40-year dyslexia research base (Hall et al. 2023, g=0.33).
AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Aided and unaided communication for individuals with complex communication needs. Core-vocabulary, LAMP, and presumed competence.
Original mechanism analyses on the failure modes that drive U.S. SPED policy
Short, citation-dense briefs that work backward from a measurable problem — due-process cost, Indicator 13 stagnation, AAC abandonment, the 85 % learning-success rule — to the smallest set of structured signals that explain it.
FAPE Risk Signals in IEP Data
A mechanism analysis of due-process cost drivers — and the structured signals that precede most filings.
Indicator 13 at the National Stagnation Rate
Why federal transition-planning compliance has not moved in a decade — and the four field-level checks that close the gap.
Zero-PII Architecture for Special-Education Software
The post-COPPA-2025 trust surface, and the three architectural commitments — UUID-only IDs, device-local inference, PII-stripping — that close it. AI/LLM calls are the focal example.
Substitution Limits — Why Paper Cannot Replace Screen-Based Assistive Technology
The Sweden/Denmark return-to-books trend does not carve out disability. For SPED, IDEA AT mandate and AAC-as-voice make screen access a federal civil-rights matter.
Special Education Terminology — Plain-Language Definitions with Primary Citations
Every glossary entry opens with a 40-80-word AI-citable answer block, followed by regulatory citation, a worked example, and related peer-reviewed research.
Editorial standards
Hub content is written in answer-first prose with inline peer-reviewed citations following the Aggarwal et al. 2024 (KDD '24) finding that inline attribution correlates with +30-40% AI citation lift. All claims trace to primary sources; research-informed language follows IncluShift's legal-language standards — no product has been evaluated in its own RCT, and no page offers legal or clinical advice.
This hub provides educational information, not legal or clinical advice. Consult a qualified attorney or licensed clinician before making decisions that rely on these summaries. Product features described on IncluShift.com are research-informed adaptive tools; individual products have not been evaluated in independent controlled studies.