Special education is complicated enough. Speddy handles the operational burden so providers can focus on students and districts can coordinate support across schools.
The same people spend more of their time supporting students.
Schedules, referrals and meetings fit together instead of competing.
Important work is being handled, and you can see that it is.
Districts are being asked to do more special education work with the same or smaller teams. The hours that go to coordination are hours that don’t go to students.
Of public schools with special education vacancies, 72% had difficulty hiring fully certified teachers for 2024–25.
Source: NCES →Students receiving IDEA services grew from 6.4 million to 7.5 million over a decade—approximately 17% growth from 2012–13 to 2022–23.
Source: NCES →Special education disputes are costly for districts, and missed or undocumented services are one of the ways they begin.
In five California districts reviewed by FCMAT, reported special education legal and settlement-related costs averaged about $434,000 per district annually.
The average of reported special education legal and settlement-related costs across 15 district-years (about $6.51 million in total) in five FCMAT special education reviews:
Bellflower’s review reports legal costs without separately totaling settlements. A five-district sample, not a statewide average.
In one California case, 35 weeks without services led to compensatory speech and OT worth about $9,200 at published provider rates, before legal costs and other remedies.
Student v. Enterprise Elementary School District, OAH Case No. 2022020241 (July 22, 2022), pp. 31–33, ordered 2,100 minutes of compensatory speech and 1,050 minutes of OT after 35 weeks without services.
Priced at $175 an hour, the individual speech and OT rate on a 2025–26 nonpublic agency rate sheet published by Oakland Unified: (35 + 17.5 hours) × $175 = $9,187.50.
An illustrative cost, not the district’s reported payment.
Speddy helps providers plan and document services while giving districts visibility to identify and address gaps early.
Reducing the effort it takes to organize and coordinate special education means something different at the district, the site and the provider level. Speddy serves each of them, and connects their work.
“Can our schools deliver a consistent, sustainable special education operation?”
Shared records and operating information give each school and provider a dependable starting point.
Relevant information is easier to obtain without repeatedly asking principals, providers and staff to assemble updates.
Less duplicated work and less dependence on information held by individuals, so staffing changes are easier to absorb.
“Can we make everyone’s responsibilities fit together here?”
Providers and school staff account for shared scheduling constraints when arranging services.
Answer who is working with which students, when, and how that affects other activities.
The people coordinating meetings, referrals and student support get a clearer basis for working together.
“Can I get through my responsibilities with less effort and confusion?”
Less of the scheduling puzzle of matching student needs with available time and school constraints.
Prepared student information arrives in your working context, where you can review and use it.
The next session, relevant student information and upcoming IEP work are easier to find and act on.
District-prepared information becomes useful provider information.
School scheduling constraints become inputs to a workable provider schedule.
Information maintained during everyday work becomes available for coordination.
Speddy is designed to support FERPA compliance, with access following role and responsibility.
Read our FERPA commitment →No self-signup. Your administrators decide who gets access.
Site admins see their schools. Providers see their caseloads.
District oversight never edits a schedule, a session, or a provider's caseload.
Meeting times are confirmed by phone or email.
A 30-minute walkthrough with a real SpEd person. Set up in an afternoon.