Help4Life Launches PortEP, a New System to Assist Schools in Improving Services for Students with Special Needs.

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.

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