Special Education

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Special Education

The Foundation: Validated Present Level Diagnostics

Let’s Go Learn is the only fully adaptive, multiple-measure reading and math diagnostic software designed specifically for special education. This is where everything begins: accurate present levels of performance (PLAAFPs).

We don’t stop at just identifying skills — our diagnostics provide a complete, evidence-based picture of each student’s strengths and needs across dozens of sub-skills. This creates the most reliable foundation for IEP (Individualized Educational Program) writing and compliance.

Even better, our platform handles SPED progress monitoring automatically. Every teacher-assigned quiz or formative assessment overlays onto the baseline data, instantly generating updated scores and growth insights. This ensures teachers progress monitoring that is substantively compliant with minimal effort.

Finally, a system that will truly support your teachers!

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Operationalizing AI Use with Teachers

How Airma Empowers Educators

Airma, our AI assistant for IEP writing in reading and math, sits at the center of the IEP workflow, giving teachers tools to work faster and more confidently while keeping them in control. She doesn’t replace the process — she makes the hardest steps easier and more streamlined.

Best of all, Airma is optional and can be phased in at your pace: start with a pilot group of teachers or roll it out district-wide. Either way, Airma builds on our diagnostic foundation to take efficiency to the next level.

Without Airma, teachers can save around 50% time using our diagnostics and reports, but with her this savings moves up to 85%  — all while improving IEP compliance, consistency, collaboration and of course reducing teacher stress.

Assess
Run diagnostics to establish validated baseline present levels.
Activate Airma
Open the AI assistant and select your IEP writing task, with diagnostic data providing context automatically.
Draft, Revise & Share
Generate first-draft PLAAFPs, SMART goals, and accommodations, then refine and save them in the secure cloud-based teacher workspace — always organized, accessible, and sharable with colleagues.
Personalize Instruction
Launch AI directly from class pages to create group activities, lesson plans, or differentiated supports aligned to student goals and current data.
Continuous Progress Monitoring
Quizzes and follow-ups automatically update scores, feeding fresh data back into goals and instruction. Teachers can adjust goals and strategies over time with confidence.

Achieve ongoing academic progress for students with disabilities

Let’s Go Learn’s special education workflow is designed to simplify and optimize the key processes required for effective student support.

  1. Diagnose: Adaptive assessments pinpoint each student’s current skill levels (present levels).
  2. Analyze and Draft the IEP: Teachers save around 50% of their time with diagnostics alone, and up to 85% with Airma assisting the drafting process.
  3. Deliver Targeted SDI: Provide gap-focused instruction via student-led or teacher-assigned online lessons.

4. Pre-built Quizzes: Track growth and inform instruction with vertically scaled quizzes whose scores overlay original pre-test at start of year.

5. Monitor Progress: Quizzes overlay onto the baseline, ensuring fresh, evidence-based data always drives updates.

By integrating assessment, instruction, and progress monitoring into one seamless system, Let’s Go Learn empowers special education teams to improve outcomes, stay compliant, and close learning gaps faster.  And today with AI that assists, special education programs can empower their teachers even further and improve outcomes.

5 Step special education Let's go learn process

Compliance, Privacy, and Teacher Empowerment

  • AI Firewall & FERPA Compliance – Student data is always de-identified before AI use.
  • DPAs Already in Place – No new contracts required for adoption.
  • Cloud Document Workspace – A built-in Google Docs-style hub for drafting, revising, and finalizing IEPs with version history, collaboration, and supervisor oversight.
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Why use Let’s Go Learn’s Special Education Programs? Let our customers explain!

“Students at the Boys & Girls Club of the Suncoast love Let’s Go Learn lessons. They have music and animation and are like games! The more they play, the more they learn!”

Julie Christman, Director of Literacy, Boys & Girls Club of the Suncoast

“Let’s Go Learn is a lifesaver. They have assessments that diagnose gaps and automatically place students at the best instructional level. Plus there are built-in formative assessments and progress monitoring that allow me to focus on what each student needs.”

Jennifer Salazar, Master Teacher, Waco, Texas ISD

Step 1: Special Education Assessments in Reading and Math

Our diagnostic assessments are adaptive, so student performance determines if items related to a specific concept become more or less difficult. The result is an accurate analysis of learning gaps and strengths and a decrease in test anxiety.

Special education math assessments are aligned to state educational standards. For elementary students, test items measure numbers and operations, measurement, data analysis, geometry, and algebraic thinking. For middle school students and secondary students, assessments include PreAlgebra and Algebra 1.

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Special education reading assessments are aligned to state educational standards and include high-frequency words, word recognition, phonics, oral vocabulary, spelling, and reading comprehension. Dyslexia screening, phonemic awareness, and fluency assessments are also available.

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Step 2: IEP-Aligned Diagnostic Assessment Reporting

Our assessment reporting is organized to support IEP requirements: goals, benchmarks, and PLAAFP/present level equivalencies for all subskills. With our next-generation tools, classroom teachers can focus on creating the optimal instruction for students rather than on statistical analysis.

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“Our IEP teams report a 50% time savings in writing their IEPs with LGL’s aligned data and narratives.”

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Step 3: Specially Designed Instruction That Addresses IEP Goals for Students with Disabilities

Using artificial intelligence (AI) and student diagnostic data, our platform creates math and reading special education interventions composed of SDI lessons that address each individual’s learning gaps. Teachers can use our interventions as supplemental curriculum, knowing that each student’s unique learning needs are being met. Teachers can also select and assign lessons to individual students as needed.

Our special education interventions are especially appropriate for students with disabilities because they:

  • Correlate to all state standards
  • Integrate critical thinking strategies with standards-based skills development
  • Include direct instruction and practice 
  • Provide feedback for incorrect responses
  • Use assistive technology by combining music, voice intonation, animation, and game-like interactivity
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Step 4: Built-In Formative Assessments that Auto-Adjust Personalized Learning Paths

With a few clicks, classroom teachers can assign our built-in formative quizzes and assessments to individual students with disabilities at regular intervals. Not only do these ensure that students have mastered learning objectives, but they ensure FAPE compliance. Formative assessments can be used to monitor educational progress in all educational environments, including response to intervention (RTI) programs, afterschool programs, and summer school. Our next-gen system uses the formative assessment data to automatically update each student’s learning path.

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LESSON QUIZZES: At daily or weekly intervals, teachers queue up quizzes on skills or concepts learned in the classroom or online. The system then assesses mastery and reports on, compares, and stores the data.

UNIT ASSESSMENTS: At weekly, monthly, or quarterly intervals, teachers queue up assessments for targeted units. The system analyzes and reports the data. Then it updates the student’s learning path.

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Step 5: One-Click Progress Monitoring

Our special education platform provides student progress monitoring in real-time:

  • Capturing and storing all student test data into a single vertically-scaled dataset
  • Presenting data in meaningful progress reports
  • Supporting continuous IEP progress monitoring and benchmark and goal attainment
  • Providing reporting in English and Spanish for parents and caregivers of students with disabilities
  • Providing reports for special education services with quarterly and annual compliance testing data
  • Providing data collection for special education teachers at school districts, whether they provide public education or private education
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And to Make It All Work: Custom Professional Development and Consultative Services

Our goal is to inform, engage, and inspire special education administrators and educators.

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Our courses are customized to your special education goals. Topics may include:

  • Leadership best practices for special education programs
  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) legal compliance
  • Program management for special education leaders
  • Navigating unfinished learning and the pandemic for students with disabilities
  • Communication between teachers and families of student with disabilities
  • Social-emotional learning for students with disabilities
  • Research-based special education programs, assessments, and tools
  • Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and special education

Take a few minutes to listen to Berti Brown, Director of IEP in Houston ISD, talk about LGL’s Professional Development for teachers of students with disabilities.

“The session empowered teachers and took a deep dive into the IEP process and the pressing need to offer support to all students.”

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Key Benefits for Special Education

Determine instructional points to inform annual goals
Deliver individualized SDI for rapid remediation
Access narrative reports for better and faster IEP writing
Provide students with targeted support across multiple modalities
Identify present levels to create compliant standards-based IEPs
Target PD and training to help educators navigate the complex landscape of Special Eduction

Common Questions

How does LGL work with students who need accommodations?

Given the nature of Let’s Go Learn assessments, test accommodations will tend to have more flexibility based on the discretion of the resource teacher or the district policy. DORA, ADAM, and DOMA are diagnostic assessments, meaning that their data is generally not used for high-stakes accountability. As a result, if the student’s accommodation calls for the allowance of a calculator during a math assessment, Let’s Go Learn permits this accommodation to be made and does not have any strict policy against a teacher or administrator making this decision. Scores are not rolled up into a normalizing algorithm, which in the case of a high-stakes assessment might restrict scores with accommodations from being used.

Can I use LGL in my district's Response to Intervention (RTI) programs?

You can administer our adaptive diagnostic easily to all your students in a particular grade level, group, or school in order to get diagnostic data to help inform instruction. Once students complete the diagnostic, you will receive reporting and narratives on each student's current grade level regardless of current grade. This will let you know for example how many students are above, at, or below grade level in the learning standards for K-12 reading and math.

Could some of my students with disabilities experience the math condition called dyscalculia?

Yes. Recent studies have shown that 5-10% of students have dyscalculia and some percentage of these students also have dyslexia. Adding goals to IEPs that address a student's math performance will ensure that students get the interventions that they need. Teachers can use ADAM or DOMA to diagnose math-related issues; Math Edge to provide targeted customized learning activities; and then monitor student progress with our formative assessments to address learning issues caused by dyscalculia.

Can I use Let's Go Learn for Data-Based Individualization?

Absolutely! Data-based individualization (DBI) is a powerful process for reaching students who need intensive intervention (Tier 3 in RTI and MTSS). Begin the process with diagnostic assessment data from our research-based assessments DORA, ADAM, and DOMA, which evaluate a content-specific area of concern. The diagnostic data drives the implementation of our validated interventions, LGL Math Edge or LGL ELA Edge. Frequent progress monitoring with our formative assessments re-align the intervention to current student performance, ensuring the effectiveness of DBI.

Does Let's Go Learn have special data collection tools?

Our underlying AI platform automatically collects all student data from their online diagnostic assessments, scores and time on task for their instructional paths, and scores from their formative assessments. We do this so educators, students, and parents can monitor student progress and adjust instruction and strategies in reading and math throughout the year.

My district uses i-Ready for elementary and NWEA MAP for secondary. How does the Let's Go Learn assessments compare to these tests?

We get asked this question quite a bit. Often districts will use these assessments for testing all students. They focus on "predicting" how well a student will do on the upcoming annual high-stakes state assessments. As a result, they were designed to be predictive above all else. And thus their use as a diagnostic will be limited especially for students who have IEPs. Our assessments were designed to find students' present levels which is a requirement of being able to remediate students as well as write good quality IEPs. Some of our customers after using us in special education have decided to drop i-Ready and/or MAP and use us as a universal diagnostic. Remember diagnostics can be summative but summative can't be diagnostic.

How do LGL's online tools provide progress monitoring in special education?

For students with disabilities and students at any MTSS/RTI Tier, LGL’s progress monitoring process is composed of five steps. Step 1: LGL diagnostics analyze each individual child’s standards-based learning gaps and present levels (PLAAFP). Step 2: IEP teams develop individualized education programs (IEPs) using LGL narratives and standards-based data. Step 3: LGL system assigns specially designed instruction (SDI) for students with disabilities at the appropriate ZPD. Teachers can always self-select lesson assignments. Step 4: LGL provides standards-based progress monitoring with formative assessments that are vertically scaled into the original dataset. Step 5: LGL curriculum provides ongoing progress monitoring, tracking student academic performance from the initial evaluation. No data collection required by teachers.

Does LGL have a data collection app that special education teachers can use to capture student data?

LGL uses a built-in data collection platform that collects progress monitoring data in math and reading. Pre-built quizzes and adaptive tests allow teachers to know exactly what students are learning or when they are not making progress. This data merges with baseline data so that demonstrating progress or lack of progress is very easy to do. Special Education teachers can thus focus on instruction rather than bookkeeping tasks.

Does LGL have testing and assessments for special education?

Our online adaptive diagnostic assessments are designed to support testing for every individual student. By employing revolutionary adaptive logic, Let’s Go Learn’s math and reading assessments maximize the information obtained about each student while minimizing test-taking time and anxiety. The granular data provides educators and teachers with a comprehensive picture of each learner’s strengths and weaknesses at a skill and concept level. This translates to a prescriptive path for true personalized learning. For students with IEPs, this means providing automated Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) that both eliminates learning gaps and accelerates learning.

Does Let's Go Learn have the best special education software? Please explain.

We believe that our system provides the most effective and equitable special education software available today. The design of the Let’s Go Learn Edge series requires that students take a computer-adaptive assessment, after which the system assigns them to the appropriate online prescriptive instruction. The prescriptive instruction is designed with a game-based paradigm that intrinsically motivates students to accomplish activities without the limitations of time or previous failures. Songs, music, animation, graphics, and audio provide learning experiences for students of all learning styles. Effective learning occurs when instruction is customized to the needs of each student, addressing individual strengths and weaknesses. Our formative assessments and progress monitoring ensure that educators can continuously adjust instruction and strategies for students with disabilities.

My special education teachers are burned out and many are thinking of changing careers. Can your special education platform help me retain these teachers?

The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) provides on its website this advice for retaining special education teachers: "Multiple research studies suggest that fully prepared teachers in special education are more effective and are more likely to remain in the teaching profession than are teachers who are not fully prepared." With Let's Go Learn, you can provide your special education teachers with a series of face-to-face or online webinars to prepare them for the challenges they will face. Additionally our special education platform is aligned to your standards and offers rigorous online diagnostic assessments, automated IEP-aligned reporting, SDI reading and math interventions, and automated progress monitoring. Our platform can thus offload some of the heavy lifting for new special education teachers with its embedded best practices. The combination of our just-in-time professional development and our special education platform will support your teachers and relieve workload and stress with bonafide solutions.

What is IDEA?

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a US federal law which defines how special education services need to deliver a free appropriate public education (also called FAPE) to eligible children with disabilities. IDEA is the cornerstone of US special education laws, and guarantees educational placement and educational services for students with a defined disability category in public schools. Students enrolled in private schools or choosing to homeschool receive some services under IDEA, according to governing federal, state, and local regulations.

How does IDEA define a disability?

The federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) defines a child with a disability as one "having an intellectual disability, a hearing impairment (including deafness), a speech or language impairment, a visual impairment (including blindness), a serious emotional disturbance (referred to in this part as “emotional disturbance”), an orthopedic impairment, autism, traumatic brain injury, an other health impairment, a specific learning disability, deaf-blindness, or multiple disabilities, and who, by reason thereof, needs special education and related services."

Does IDEA affect students in private schools or homeschooling?

Yes, but with caveats. First, local education agencies (LEAs) must have a "child find process", which means they must "locate, identify, and evaluate all children with disabilities who are enrolled by their parents in private, including religious, elementary schools and secondary schools located in the school district served by the LEA." Then the IDEA "requires school districts to make services and benefits available to children with disabilities enrolled by their parents in nonpublic (private) schools." However, public schools do not have to provide special services to every student not enrolled in their school district. In fact, it is possible that some children in private schools "will not receive any services while others will." In addition, "for those who receive services, the amount and type of services also may differ from the services the child would receive if placed in a public school by the parents or in a private school by a public agency."  Often, parents who choose to homeschool their students wave their right to services under FAPE, however they may still be eligible for some services through their public school systems. And homeschooled students must be given a free, individual evaluation if the students are suspected of having disabilities. If educational disabilities are found, the public school must offer an Individualized Education Program (IEP) team, in conjunction with the parents or guardians, to develop a written plan for the student. At every step of the process, a student's parents or guardians must provide consent for services. Some important special education laws and rules governing private schools and homeschooling change from state to state, so it's important to consult a local educational agency to discover the services to which a student is entitled. If a parent becomes concerned about a student's evaluation process, the initial placement, or the educational program, contact the appropriate, local public agency.

How is Let’s Go Learn different from other special education AI tools?

Most AI platforms rely only on what a teacher types in. Let’s Go Learn begins with validated diagnostic assessments, giving Airma real baseline data to work from. This ensures drafts are contextual, evidence-based, and consistent.

Does this replace teachers?

No. Airma is designed to reduce teacher workload — not replace professional judgment. Teachers remain in full control of drafting, reviewing, and finalizing IEPs.

Can we adopt Airma gradually?

Yes. Districts can phase in Airma with a pilot teacher cohort before rolling it out more broadly. Because the foundation is our diagnostics, the system delivers value even without AI turned on.

Is this considered IEP compliance software?

Yes. Let’s Go Learn supports IEP compliance by generating present levels, SMART goals, and progress monitoring reports that are consistent, transparent, and audit-ready.

How does this help with SPED progress monitoring?

Unlike manual tracking tools, every quiz and follow-up assessment overlays on the baseline to generate fresh scores. This provides a continuous stream of real-time data that feeds into IEP updates and progress reports.

Does the platform integrate with our district’s SPED or SIS system?

Yes. Our solution is built to sync or export data to state reporting systems and third-party SPED repositories, reducing duplicate entry and ensuring compliance. We will need to work with customers individually to execute this as SIS system and SPED repositories vary from state to state.

What research supports your diagnostics?

Let’s Go Learn’s assessments are CASE-endorsed, research-validated, and aligned to state standards, ensuring they are trusted across thousands of schools nationwide.
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