Slingshot is a mobile app that helps parents of children with IEPs organize their child's educational records, log home observations, and connect those notes to specific IEP goals over time. The app transforms scattered parent insights into a structured evidence record for more productive and confident IEP meetings. It also offers a professional workflow for advocates and teachers who manage multiple IEP cases.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Parents of children with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) often struggle to track their child's progress and prepare for IEP meetings. They arrive at meetings with scattered notes and feelings rather than organized evidence, making it difficult to advocate effectively for the services and support their child needs.
Solution
Slingshot provides a mobile app that lets parents upload their child's IEP documents and log observations from home, which are then automatically mapped to specific IEP goals over time. This creates a longitudinal record of parent insight that can be presented during meetings to support advocacy. The platform organizes all IEP and IFSP records in one place, tracks important deadlines, and generates meeting-ready summaries. For professionals like advocates and teachers who manage caseloads of families, Slingshot offers a workflow designed around their existing practices.
Target Audience
Primary users are parents and guardians of children with IEPs or IFSPs who want to advocate more effectively, as well as professional advocates, teachers, and related service providers who support multiple families through the IEP process.
Features
- Automatic extraction of goals, services, and accommodations from uploaded IEP and IFSP documents
- Goal-mapping technology that connects parent-logged observations to specific IEP objectives over time
- Deadline tracking for upcoming IEP/IFSP meetings and related milestones
- Mobile-first interface designed for quick logging of observations from home
- Privacy-focused architecture with no data selling and no sharing for marketing purposes
- Professional workflow tools for advocates and teachers managing multiple family caseloads