IEP / 504 Plan Plain-Language Decoder
Upload your child's IEP or Section 504 plan and get it explained in plain English: what every acronym in your document actually means, whether each goal is written clearly enough that anyone could tell if it had been met, a set of questions to bring to the next meeting based on what's missing, and a straightforward summary of your rights as a parent. Free, no account, and nothing is stored.
This explains your child's plan in plain language and helps you prepare for the next meeting. It doesn't evaluate your child, and when it flags a goal it's commenting on how the goal is written — something the team can improve together — never on your child.
About your file: nothing is uploaded to any third party beyond the single AI call needed to read the document, it isn't stored after your results come back, there's no account, and nothing is kept on our side. The AI is also instructed not to return your child's name, date of birth or ID number, and none of those appear in your results.
What makes a goal “measurable”
A goal is measurable when someone outside the team could read it and say whether it had been met. In practice that takes four things: a specific, observable skill (not “improve reading” but “read aloud from a grade-level passage”), a number that counts as success (95% accuracy, 4 out of 5 trials, 110 words per minute), a way progress is measured (running records, curriculum-based measurement, collected data), and a date by which it should happen.
Every goal in your plan is checked for those four, and the tool shows you the exact wording that satisfied each one — so if it says a goal has a target, you can see the phrase it found. That check is plain pattern-matching on the text, not an AI opinion, which means it gives the same answer every time. A goal being flagged doesn't mean anyone did anything wrong; vague goal language is extremely common, and asking for a goal to be rewritten more specifically is a normal, everyday part of the process.
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Is this a free tool to understand my child's IEP in plain English?
Yes — upload the plan and you get a glossary of the terms your document actually uses, a measurability check on every goal, meeting questions drawn from the gaps found, and a plain-language summary of parent rights. It's free, there's no signup, and there's no limit on how many times you can use it.
Is my child's plan uploaded or stored anywhere?
Your file is sent to a secure AI service for the single call needed to read it, and it is not stored afterward — not by that service and not by us. There's no account, nothing is saved on our side, and your results exist only in your browser until you close the page. The AI is also explicitly instructed not to return your child's name, date of birth, ID number or address, and none of those fields appear anywhere in your results. Beyond that one reading call, nothing is shared with any third party.
How does it decide whether a goal is measurable?
By checking the goal's own wording for four things: a specific observable skill, a number or criterion that defines success, a stated way of measuring progress, and a deadline. Goals with all four are marked clearly measurable, two or three as partly measurable, and fewer as hard to measure. It also quotes back open-ended wording like "improve" or "as appropriate", which can mean different things to different people. The check is deterministic text analysis, so it's consistent and you can see exactly which phrase triggered each result.
Does it work for a Section 504 plan as well as an IEP?
Yes. It identifies which kind of plan you've uploaded and adjusts what it shows. A 504 plan usually centres on accommodations rather than annual goals, so the goal check may find little to analyse — in that case the glossary, the accommodations list and the meeting questions carry the value. If you have a 504 plan, one of the suggested questions asks about whether an evaluation for an IEP would be appropriate, since families often want to understand the difference.
Does this replace an advocate or an attorney?
No, and it shouldn't be used as one. This helps you read your document and prepare good questions. If you're in a genuine dispute with a district — a refused evaluation, services being cut, a placement change you disagree with, or anything heading toward mediation or due process — talk to a special education advocate or attorney. Many states have free parent training and information centres that can help you at no cost.
Is the rights summary specific to my state?
No — it's general, federal-level basics for the United States, written plainly: the procedural safeguards notice and when you should receive it, prior written notice, your right to request an independent educational evaluation if you disagree with the school's, your place as a full member of the team, and access to records. States and districts layer their own rules, timelines and forms on top of that, and Section 504 follows different safeguards from IDEA. Your procedural safeguards notice is the document that spells out your state's specifics.
What if it misses goals or reads something wrong?
It can. Plans run long and districts format them very differently, so a goal buried in an unusual table layout can be missed, and a scanned or photographed page can be harder to read than a PDF from the school. Always check the results against the document itself, and if pages didn't come through well, try uploading those pages on their own. The goals are quoted word for word rather than paraphrased precisely so you can compare them against your plan.