Illuminate Special Education

An effective special education program involves compliance of SPP indicators, IEP accuracy, successful focused monitoring, timely completion of Medicaid reporting, progress monitoring, a centralized database, and much more. Most of all, it means enabling teachers and providers to meet students' needs in the most efficient and compliant manner possible.

Until now, delivering such a program was a complex matter. Fortunately, Illuminate Education and Calhoun Intermediate School District in Michigan collaborated to create Illuminate Special Education™ (formerly Focus), a web-based data management system that simplifies special education processes and regulations while ensuring speed and compliance. For example, other systems simply allow users to complete IEP forms online. Conversely, the IEP generator in Illuminate Special Education is "smart" and (based on each selection) prompts you in creating a compliant IEP.

Illuminate Special Education is a complete, end-to-end system that begins its service with the referral process, guides you though the IEP process, and manages Medicaid encounter tracking and billing… and more. Illuminate offers the next generation of special education systems.

Comprehensive End-to-End System

Illuminate Special Education centralizes and streamlines:

1. Individualized Education Plan (IEP) process, providing forms with dynamic flow
2. Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) process
3. Student data
4. Medicaid billing
5. Referrals (REED)
6. Evaluations
7. Encounter tracking
8. Reports (pre-built reports and an easy-to-use ad hoc report builder)
9. Scheduling
10. SPP indicator tracking
11. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requirements/data
12. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act regulations/data
13. Permission to Place (e.g., student transfers/temporary placement)
14. State reporting tools (Error report helps find and eliminate count errors. State data extract for special education fields).