Cam Smith
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IND Whole Child Guide™

August 2025

A strengths-based guide for a child’s teachers and IEP team, prepared by the IND Foundation with parents. It puts advocacy, developmental data, home observations, and school records in one place.

Link to come
“Dill wants water.”
— Dani

Why I started

The home view is a rich, evolving story that has no structured place to land in the IEP process. Parent input is always requested, but never fully absorbed. There’s simply no space — or time — to tell the whole story.

Who it’s for

Teachers and IEP team members — and every child who’s underestimated, whose intelligence is hidden in plain sight, whose story doesn’t fit neatly into the systems we’ve inherited.

Odd facts

The name

IND stands for Inclusive Neurodiversity Development.

What it was supposed to be

A binder for the IEP meeting.

The detail nobody notices

It has a section for the teachers, too: “we’re rooting for Dill — and we’re rooting for you, too.”

One number

1,110+ photos analyzed.

What it taught me

How to connect research and standards to AI workflows.

What’s next

Turning the process into an app families can use to do the same thing.

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