🧭 Rin Compass

Assistance programs, deadlines, and local life for a 4-year-old on the spectrum — Florida-first, verified at the source, updated daily.

Data as of — App — Family pipeline lives on this device only
What this app is — and is not. Rin Compass collects publicly posted program rules, requirements, and deadlines and checks them at the official source. It makes no therapy recommendations, no efficacy claims, and uses no diagnosis language about any child. Nothing about your family is stored in the dataset or sent anywhere — the Family Pipeline lives only on this device.

What changed in the data

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The three moves that protect timelines

  • Child Find evaluation (Polk ESE PreK) — free, and the IEP it can produce unlocks VPK-SIS. Ages 3–5 window.
  • APD application — waiver services may be far off, but your place on the pre-enrollment list is set by the date APD finds the child eligible. Applying early is the whole game.
  • CARD-USF registration — free, self-referral, and their consultants help navigate everything else on this list.

Details, requirement checklists, and application steps are in the Programs lane. Add anything you start to the Family Pipeline so the dates and next steps stay in one place.

How the daily refresh works

Every morning, an automated job re-reads the official source of every program in this dataset, scans public video, social, books, and government postings for new leads, compares against yesterday, and updates the data file with a new as-of date. Leads that haven't been read at an official source stay in the Signals lane, marked unverified. Anything the job could not read is printed as a coverage gap in the Coverage panel below — a named gap is the honest outcome, never hidden.

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Signals are leads, not facts. Each one was seen in the wild — a video, a post, a book list, a comment thread — and has not been verified. Every signal prints how to verify it. A signal only moves into Programs after someone reads it at the official source.
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Winter Haven & Polk County — things to do at age 4

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Deadline & waitlist radar

Windows that close with age, dates that recur every year, and the waitlists whose position is set the day you apply. Sorted with age-windows first — those are the ones that can be lost by waiting.

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Family Pipeline — on this device only

Track what you've started: status, next action, due date, documents on hand. This never leaves the device except in a backup file you export. Pipeline store: …

Application packet

A clean, printable packet: your pipeline summary plus the full requirement checklist for every program in it. Print it or save it as a PDF before an appointment or a records request.