Supporting people with invisible disabilities through education, self-advocacy, technology, partnerships, and community.
Digital Tools Hub
Live tools that extend IPC's digital-first model
A growing suite of accessible, evidence-informed web tools designed to support individuals with invisible disabilities, the people who care for them, and the educators and volunteers who walk alongside them.
Accommodation Advocate
Helps individuals with invisible disabilities prepare and organize accommodation requests, support needs, documentation, and communication across school, workplace, healthcare, and community settings.
Who it helps
Students, employees, patients, and self-advocates navigating accommodation conversations.
Key features
- Guided accommodation request drafting
- Documentation and support-needs organizer
- Communication templates for schools, workplaces, and providers
- Self-advocacy prompts and language scaffolds
Stress & Support Navigator
Helps caregivers, families, educators, and individuals manage stress, care coordination, support planning, resource navigation, and daily overwhelm.
Who it helps
Caregivers, families, educators, and people managing daily overwhelm.
Key features
- Stress check-ins and reflection prompts
- Care coordination and support planning
- Resource navigation across systems
- Practical strategies for daily overwhelm
Behavior Support Assistant
Helps educators, caregivers, and support teams create structured behavior support plans using evidence-informed frameworks such as PBIS, MTSS, UDL, and IDEA.
Who it helps
Educators, caregivers, IEP/504 teams, and behavior support staff.
Key features
- Structured behavior support plan builder
- Evidence-informed frameworks: PBIS, MTSS, UDL, IDEA
- Function-based strategy suggestions
- Team-ready documentation output
Teaching Self-Advocacy to Students with Invisible Disabilities
A companion article to Accommodation Advocate — practical steps for educators, caregivers, and families teaching self-advocacy skills.
Innovation Pipeline
Inclusive Pathways Collaborative develops, tests, and connects digital tools that reduce accessibility barriers for individuals with invisible disabilities, caregivers, educators, volunteers, and community partners. Every tool moves through a clear lifecycle — from early prototype to community pilot to broader implementation — so that innovation is grounded in lived experience, accessibility, and measurable impact.
1. Prototype
Early digital tools being tested for usability, accessibility, and alignment with community needs. Prototypes are functional enough to gather feedback but remain under active iteration.
Live Prototype tools
2. Pilot
Tools are used with volunteers, caregivers, educators, or individuals to gather structured feedback, measure outcomes, and refine design before wider release.
3. Scale
Tools ready for broader implementation, community partnerships, and sustainable funding support. At scale, each tool becomes part of IPC's core service ecosystem.
How the Digital Tools Hub fits IPC's model
Each tool is a live, working prototype that operationalizes IPC's digital-first nonprofit model: expanding access beyond geography, scaling volunteer and ambassador capacity, embedding evidence-informed frameworks into everyday practice, and producing documentation that strengthens self-advocacy, care coordination, and program evaluation. Tools are external prototypes linked from IPC and will be iterated with community feedback, accessibility testing, and partner input.
Disclaimer
These tools are educational and support-planning resources. They do not replace professional medical, legal, educational, mental health, or disability services. Users should consult appropriate professionals, schools, employers, or care providers when making formal decisions.