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How LumaLayer works, step by step — written for clinicians, not admins.

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Getting started

What LumaLayer does and the five-minute path to your first finished session.

LumaLayer is a caseload operating system for school and pediatric SLPs. It holds your students and their IEP goals, captures what happened in a session, and turns that into documentation, progress data, and a family summary — without you retyping anything.

The fastest way to understand it is to run one real session end to end. Budget about five minutes.

  1. 1Add a student under Students → Add student. First and last name are enough to start.
  2. 2Import that student's IEP so goals are available. You can also add goals by hand.
  3. 3Start a session from the dashboard, pick the student and the goals you're targeting.
  4. 4Record or type what happened, log trial data against each goal, then finish the session.
  5. 5Review the generated SOAP and progress note on the Outputs screen, edit anything, and save.
  6. 6If the family has consent on file, share the summary to the parent portal.

Common mistakes

  • Starting a session before importing the IEP — the goal picker will be empty.
  • Closing the browser tab mid-session before pressing finish. Finish the session first; the note generates from there.

Still stuck?

Email hello@lumalayer.ai with your question and we can point you to the right guide.