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What is an education plan?

An individual education plan is a structured document that describes what a child needs from school and how the school will provide it. Different countries use different names: IEP in the United States, EHC Plan in the United Kingdom, OPP (Ontwikkelingsperspectiefplan) in the Netherlands. The idea is the same everywhere: a written agreement between parents and school about how to support a child who learns differently.

Why the current process is broken

Creating an education plan today is manual, inconsistent, and exhausting. Parents spend weeks gathering assessment reports, researching laws, and writing documents that schools may or may not take seriously. The process varies wildly between districts, schools, and individual administrators. A parent in Amsterdam faces a completely different bureaucratic maze than a parent in Rotterdam, even though the legal requirements are identical.

How Cognistase generates advocacy documents

Data collection

The AI draws from your child's developmental profile in the Asynchronicity Monitor: assessment scores, evidence tiers, discrepancy patterns, and data over time. It combines this with the specific legal requirements for your area.

Source retrieval

The AI pulls from a curated library of education laws, clinical guidelines, assessment manuals, and peer-reviewed research. It doesn't generate text from memory. It finds verified information and writes it up into a clear document.

Document generation

The AI produces a draft education plan with proper structure, citations, and recommendations. Every claim in the document references a specific source: a law, a clinical guideline, or your child's own assessment data.

Your review

The document is a draft. You review it, edit it, and approve it before it goes anywhere. You add your own observations, correct anything that doesn't match your child's situation, and decide what to share.

Every claim cites its source

This isn't negotiable. When the document says your child is entitled to curriculum differentiation, it cites the specific article in education law. When it recommends adjustments to executive function support, it references the clinical guidelines behind it. If the AI can't cite a verifiable source for a claim, it doesn't make the claim.

How the AI finds information

Consumer AI tools generate text from patterns learned during training. They don't check whether what they write is true. Cognistase works differently: it searches a curated, verified library of sources before writing any text. Think of it as the difference between someone answering from memory (which might be wrong) and someone who looks up the answer in a trusted reference every time.

The verified source library

The AI draws only from a curated collection of vetted sources that the Cognistase team maintains and updates:

• Education law by country and region, updated when laws change
• Clinical guidelines from recognized professional organizations
• Assessment manuals (WISC-V, BRIEF-2, Vineland-3, and others)
• Peer-reviewed research on giftedness, twice-exceptionality, and asynchronous development
• DSM-5 and ICD-11 references where clinically relevant

Teacher Bridge: sharing with educators

Once you approve a document, you can share specific sections with your child's teacher through Teacher Bridge. The teacher gets a secure, time-limited link. No account needed. They see a clear summary of your child's needs with practical classroom strategies, not the full clinical detail. Teacher Bridge is designed to reduce tension, not create it: parent and teacher work from the same evidence.

You stay in control

The AI never shares anything on your behalf. Every document goes through your review before it can be sent. You can edit freely, remove sections, add your own observations, or decide not to share at all. The AI is a drafting tool. The decisions are yours.