NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Nashville-based Help4Life
announces the launch of PortEP(SM), a new collaborative education system that
will change the way schools provide services to students with special needs.
PortEP enables educators to help students with behavioral health and
learning needs achieve improved results by reducing administrative and
logistical barriers so educators can identify, assess and provide
interventions more efficiently and with lower costs.
PortEP offers three performance modules for general education
intervention, online team evaluations, and special education tracking. The
general education component delivers a data-based, problem-solving process
that helps teachers identify and quickly help children before major problems
develop.
PortEP also enables educators, for the first time, to coordinate student
evaluations online, including input from parents, teachers, psychologists and
physicians. The evaluation module makes collecting, organizing and acting on
information more efficient, leaving more time for educators to work directly
with students and families. The tracking module makes monitoring progress and
making corrections less time consuming and allows administrators to manage
resources more effectively.
"PortEP provides a cohesive process for identifying and supporting
students with behavioral or learning needs from pre-referral to monitoring,"
said Tammy Gibbs, Help4Life's educational consultant. "Although our system
streamlines the assessment and intervention process for educators, the true
beneficiaries are the students. The system reduces the administrative work,
which means teachers and psychologists can spend more time helping students."
Using PortPlatforms(SM) technology and the power of the Internet, PortEP
dramatically reduces the administrative and communications burden on school
psychologists, teachers and administrators. This easy-to-use system has
enabled some psychologists to see a 40 percent reduction in administrative
time. More time and attention from these professionals mean better results
for the students.
PortEP's tracking system provides feedback on each student's intervention
plan to help generate the best results for that student. In addition,
teachers and school psychologists will have complete access to online news,
studies and articles on behavioral health and learning disorders.
"As a director of special education, I talk daily with families who call
and ask questions about their children's learning needs," said Michael Remus
of the Williamson County (Tennessee) School System. "PortEP gives an
integrated report with a lot of information about the totality of the child,
which really helps parents understand what is exactly going on. With PortEP,
parents feel like they are part of the team.
"This system has allowed our educators to spend less time doing
administrative work and more time helping kids. And, that's our major goal.
Today, assessments can be done in days with PortEP, rather than weeks."
Help4Life, Inc. is a privately held company based in Nashville, Tenn.,
specializing in developing proprietary software technology that facilitates
efficient, effective collaborative tools for professionals and parents. With
school contracts in Wisconsin, Illinois and Tennessee, PortEP offers schools
the ability to quickly assess and identify student's individual needs. For
more information about Help4Life please visit http://www.Help4Life.com or
email info@Help4life.com.
SOURCE Help4Life, Inc.
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