Company: CentralReach, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Nomination Submitted by: Matter Communications
Company Description: CentralReach is the industry’s leading ABA software and services provider. Their mission is to help children and adults with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)- and those who serve them - unlock potential, achieve better outcomes, and live more independent lives.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Education
Nomination Sub Category: Solution for Special Needs Students
 Nomination Title: CentralReach's LiftEd
- Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the nominated new or new-version product or service, OR written answers to the questions for this category? (Choose one):
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
LiftEd by CentralReach was most recently updated in November 2022.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
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LiftEd by CentralReach simplifies and centralizes Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), applied behavior analysis (ABA), and behavior data collection in the classroom. Created for special educators, board certified behavior analysts (BCBA), therapists, and administrators, LiftEd's core technology is built on evidence-based principles proven to improve academic and behavioral outcomes for students with various learning disabilities. While many solutions on the market are expensive, hard to use, and require professionals to manually connect data points, LiftEd was built with advanced technology that is holistic and easy to use in today’s school systems.
LiftEd’s core features include smart data collection, multi-user access and collaboration, centralized record keeping, streamlined program creations, and flexible scheduling. The software integrates data from existing technology platforms, like IEP systems, and securely stores it for all education staff to access. Teachers, BCBAs, and service providers can manage their student scheduling, while therapists can track in-person and online service time. With the ability to seamlessly manage curriculum, record data, and access information about student progress, LiftEd provides critical real-time insights to drive instructional and behavioral interventions, allowing teachers to make faster on-the-spot decisions to help students master learning objectives.
LiftEd empowers school teachers, specialized support and service providers, administrators, and parents to prioritize their students’ progress. The cloud-based software helps teams deeply understand students’ unique strengths and learning barriers, plan and deliver individualized instruction, monitor progress continuously, and make data-informed decisions that accelerate students’ learning outcomes.
In 2022, CentralReach announced a new integration with Frontline Education, a leading provider of school administration software. This integration provides an automatic sync that pushes student demographic and IEP goals and objectives from Frontline’s solution directly into LiftEd. With this integration, educators and therapists can more easily align classroom progress monitoring to active IEP goals and short-term objectives, thus ensuring special education compliance at all times. Behavior analysts, teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators and therapists using both Frontline and LiftEd will also be able to demonstrate, in a data-driven way, that the decisions and programs used in the classroom are positively impacting each student’s progress on their IEP goals.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):
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Since its launch, LiftEd has served over 10,000 students and educators in schools, districts, and private homes across the US. At the Parsippany School District in New Jersey, the utilization of LiftEd saved students approximately 3 hours a week and reduced training time for inclusive support staff by 75%.
“LiftEd has changed the game in data collection software. From navigating the platform with ease to recording daily data to providing graphical displays, LiftEd is a must for the field of special education. As a BCBA and special education teacher, I commend LiftEd on their willingness to collaborate and effectively train staff to utilize their platform to enhance classroom and clinical practices, and to ultimately provide a trustworthy, safe space for confidential data collection.”
- Chary Matisk, BCBA, Parsippany-Troy Hills School District
“For the past 3 years, I’ve had the pleasure of contracting with LiftEd for use by my behaviorist staff team as they provide weekly services to multiple home cases for children with Autism. LiftEd has been instrumental in improving the coordination, data management processes across the team, and perhaps most importantly, increasing parent transparency!
As a therapy center providing direct service hours, less administrative work means more time that can be focused on instruction. With LiftEd, staff regained an hour each day for direct service, by not having to hand graph progress data and analyze learning trends – this was done automatically in real time while data were collected in the app. Further, my behaviorist staff often had slight variation in how data were collected, when particular instructional prompts were provided, or decisions were made, based on individual styles. LiftEd became the centralized tool for the entire team to access the same skill acquisition and behavioral programs ensuring consistency and reliability in the way data were collected and analyzed. Finally, LiftEd introduced a level of transparency of the learner’s progress that most parents yearn for.”
-Dr. Anjalee Nirgudkar, owner of Behavior Analysts of New Jersey
*Each of these testimonials can be found at the bottom of this webpage: www.theliftedapp.com
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