STAGE 01
Diagnosis
Screening tools that let a parent or teacher spot a learning disability early, and give a clinician something concrete to work from — critical where specialist assessment is scarce.
Tools for this stage →Inclusive education · Pakistan
Every child learns. Not every child learns the same way.
Edsistive builds the technology that makes inclusive education work — from diagnosing learning disabilities, through the support a child receives in class, to the systems institutions run behind it. Designed by technologists, designers and subject matter experts, and used in Pakistani schools and clinics today.
Some of what we've shipped
The pathway
Inclusion breaks at the handovers.
A child is diagnosed but nobody tells the teacher. A teacher adapts but it never reaches the record. An institution writes a plan it cannot staff. We work across all three stages, because the gaps between them are where children are lost.
STAGE 02
In-class support
Remedial and learning tools a child can use independently, plus the training that helps a teacher adapt a lesson rather than work around a child.
Support and training →STAGE 03
Institution management
Records, assessments and education plans held in one place, with consultancy for the leaders deciding what an institution should run at all.
Systems and consultancy →Products
Built across the whole pathway.
Tools for each stage of the pathway — identifying a need, supporting a child day to day, and running the institution around them. Below are some of the products in use today; others are in development or running as research pilots.
Early Autism Screening Tool
EAST
A cost-effective tool for assessing autism at an early age. EAST puts a structured screening process in the hands of parents and teachers, and produces results a clinician can act on — critical where diagnostic services are scarce.
Parents and teachersAndroidiOS in development
Dyslexia remediation
Rawaan
The first Urdu-based remedial therapy tool for dyslexia, delivered as a game for primary school children. It applies historically verified reading and spelling methods, adapts to the child's level in real time, and reports back on what has been mastered and what needs practice.
Ages 5–11Adaptive difficultyParent reporting
Vocabulary
SparkEd
Urdu vocabulary organised into collections of everyday words, with icons plus English and Urdu voice and text — designed so children can build recall independently.
For practitioners
Practice Management System
Scheduling, embedded chat and video, client records, resource sharing and a patient timeline — built for therapists and clinics, and configurable for other practices.
What we do
Research first, then a product people can actually use.
Every product starts as fieldwork with the families, teachers and clinicians who will use it. Our team works in Human-Computer Interaction, publishes at CHI, and tests each build in Pakistani classrooms before it ships. That is the difference between software that exists and software that gets used.
Read our researchPortals
Free, public, and open to everyone.
Free, open knowledge platforms for families and educators — built for a country where awareness is still low and misinformation travels fast.
Autism
Autism Assisted
Information, guidance and support structures for the autism community in Pakistan — for families navigating a diagnosis and the professionals around them.
Visit Autism Assisted →Dyslexia
Dyslexia Assisted
Guidance on specific learning difficulties: local realities, common myths, and where to find help. Built with Chisel Research Lab at LUMS.
Visit Dyslexia Assisted →Services
Technology alone doesn't change a classroom.
We train the people around the child and advise the institutions that serve them, so the tools land in a school ready to use them.
Workshops & Talks
Hands-on sessions, led by accredited experts, that make assistive technology simple to understand and adopt. Open to teachers and parents alike.
See upcoming workshops →Product Development
Tailored digital solutions designed around the unique needs of students, educators, schools, and the special needs community.
Explore our solutions →Consultancy
Digital systems for student records, assessments and IEPs; inclusion planning with school leaders; and psychological evaluation to guide support strategies.
Book a consultation →Sister centre
NEST Institute
Neurodevelopment Evaluation, Support and Transformation Institute. A multidisciplinary centre where screening, diagnosis, therapy and long-term guidance run as one connected service — so families don't have to assemble their own care plan.
DyslexiaADHDAutism spectrumLanguage and learning differences
Visit NESTResearch
Our products are the output of published work.
In developing countries, learning disabilities are hard to diagnose, hard to act on and hard to track over time — and the gap between families and effective support is not closing quickly enough. Our research programme treats technology as the bridge across that gap, at every stage of it, and each study becomes a tool.
Browse the research
In collaboration with Chisel Research LabLahore University of Management Sciences
Lexia
A gamified screening tool for dyslexia: eight tests covering different skills, administered by parents or teachers, with results psychologists can use for formal assessment.
Rawaan
Historically verified remedial methods for reading and spelling, adapted to Urdu and delivered as a game.
Early autism detection
Screening approaches suited to low-resource settings, where specialist assessment is often out of reach.
What families and teachers tell us.
This app is like magic! My daughter loves the app and her grades have gone up. Highly recommended!
This app has helped my daughter's Urdu a lot. There is a visible change in her Urdu grades and it's easier for her to learn Urdu.
We are very thankful to all of you, we get a lot of knowledge due to your hard work. I now feel like I know how to deal with autism patients.
Bring inclusive education to your school or practice.
Whether you need to diagnose learning disabilities, support children in class, or get your management systems in order, we can arrange one-time or recurring engagements — weekly, monthly or yearly.
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Product releases, new research and upcoming workshops. Roughly once a month.
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