See Me Go Potty English 4+

AvaKid Productions

Designed for iPad

    • $1.99

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Description

See Me Go Potty
The unique, distinctively useful, and exceptionally fun potty trainer.

How it works
1. Use a simple menu to create a cartoon avatar that physically resembles your child/children.
2. Let your child repeatedly play the Go Potty narrative showing him/herself successfully complete the whole process of using the potty step by step.
3. Show your child the Accident Scene narrative to teach what an “accident” is.

You’ll be hearing “I did it!” in no time.

Important features
Fifteen actionable potty training tips included: The app includes concrete advice about preparation, behavioral reinforcement, behavioral shaping, when to continue vs. take a break, and more.
Teaching with positive reinforcement and fun: The Go Potty scene ends with your child’s avatar happily celebrating a successful “I did it!” potty experience. In contrast, the Accident Scene ends with your child’s avatar being disappointed by the “uh-oh”.
Personalization and connection to kinesthetic learning: Children immediately joyfully recognize their cartoon selves, closing the gap between watching someone else do something and visualizing oneself doing something. The supplemental motor area (SMA) of the brain is responsible for learning and planning motor behaviors (actions). Quite amazingly, neuroscientists have shown that imagining oneself doing something involves similar activity patterns in the SMA as actually doing it.
Visual learning is powerful: This app is a great teaching tool for typically developing children as well as children with developmental delays and communication disabilities. The layout is intentionally simple and free of distractions. Your child’s attention will be focused on him/herself using the potty. Parents who have a “neuro-diverse” family know that the teaching techniques we rely on to teach our children with developmental delays also work like a charm with our typical kids. Many kids on the autism spectrum, in particular, are very visual learners, but the power of visual learning is certainly not restricted to them.
Auditory learning and read(/write) learning via simple narrative accompaniment: The animations are accompanied by a simple step-by-step script that your child can readily adopt and transfer to real life. Most children of potty training age cannot read yet; they will simply hear and then mimic the verbal labels for each step. However, many children on the autism spectrum, who are relatively late to potty train, may be able to recognize sight words surprisingly early. A 3–5 year-old child may be able to “read along”, further reinforcing the behavioral sequence.

Background
The See Me Go Potty app came about based on the developers’ experience potty training their three children and is grounded in Ann’s (mom’s) expertise in neuroscience (she holds a PhD in the neurobiology of learning and memory from UC Irvine). They overcame potty training difficulties with a child who has a communication/autism spectrum disorder by creating a step-by-step animated slide show narrative of her going to the bathroom. She readily transferred the process and the vocabulary to real-life toileting and was finally fully and successfully potty trained within a few weeks. When the Smiths’ youngest (typically developing) daughter was ready to potty train, they were preparing to adapt the narrative to look like her, and thought how nice it would have been to have done this for their eldest (typically developing) son, who had been outright defiant to the process. Moreover, they realized how all potty training parents and preschool teachers could appreciate this teaching tool and commenced development of this app.

What’s New

Version t5

iOS 11 support

Ratings and Reviews

4.0 out of 5
43 Ratings

43 Ratings

JackeyBean ,

Needs more than one avatar option

I really like this app. My daughter is already walking around saying the lines and she’s loving it too.

A couple edits I wish would be added:

1) Make it so you can have multiple avatars.
I have twins, boy-girl, so every time I want to use the app for one, I’m trying to hurry up and change it from the boy to girl (or vice versa).

2) The opening credit takes way too long. Potty training a toddler means every second counts. I don’t have 4-5 seconds to wait for the app to launch, and then another 6seconds to tweak the avatar.

3) I wish the washing hands scene was a tad longer.

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Things I like:

1) it says what the child is doing at each step. So great for visual and audio reinforcement.

2) customizable avatar. My daughter loves seeing herself. When I try to show it to her using the boy avatar, she asks where she is and wants me to fix it. So smart.

3) “I did it!” Celebration at the end. My daughter gets a big smile every time it gets to that part.

Overall/ great little app. I’d definitely recommend it to others. Just really hope the devs update with some of the user recommendations.

Sweetly 33 ,

Great!

My autistic son is loving it so far. We are on day 2 and have had 2 successful poo potties!

I would LOVE to have the poo scene take a little longer. I pause during that because my son takes a little longer. Washing hands scene should most definitely run the whole recommended time of hand washing. Maybe play a hand washing song or just say “wash, wash, wash” the whole time? I pause during this scene also so my son washes his hands longer. Would also be nice if the hair style was a little more ethic as my son is black and the short curly style is the closest it gets but it is very far from his hair.

It is a great app and I would recommend.

Bryndal7799123 ,

Exactly what we needed

It’s a relatively simple app, which makes it perfect for using to teach toddlers. I guess some people expected something more complicated and elaborate. If you want to help your kids “get it” and start using the bathroom independently, this is an excellent teaching tool. It’s like social story, but better because the star of the story is his or herself. My neurotypical kid was fully trained within 3 days of playing with this app repeatedly every day. My kid with autism took about 10 days, at 2 y 10 mo. It worked for her because it’s so visual even though she wasn’t conversational yet, and got her independently trained a good 1-2 years before most kids on the spectrum.

App Privacy

The developer, AvaKid Productions, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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