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Courageous Kids

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About this app

Courageous Kids brings you evidence-based, practical resources to prepare your child for change and reduce their anxiety.
Set your child up for success with new experiences with our unique combination of personalised social stories, visual plans and games.

Developed with a leading child psychologist and occupational therapist, our app helps familiarise children with upcoming situations. Whether you want to minimise separation anxiety in children starting school or kindergarten, explain appropriate party behaviour, or just sleep in on the weekend, our customised, personalised stories, games and visual plans offers you a powerful tool like no other.

Join the fast-growing community of parents who use Courageous KidsTM to empower their children and develop their resilience. The app is perfect for children who like to be prepared, and for those with anxiety or autism.

1. PERSONALISED SOCIAL STORIES

Discover a library of carefully crafted and beautifully illustrated social stories, that can be personalised to feature your child as the main character.

Our stories prepare children for common anxiety-provoking situations in a positive and engaging way. By entering the child’s name and age, and selecting an illustrated avatar to suit, your child becomes the main character in every story. Alternatively, you can replace our illustrations with your own photos! Story text can also be edited, if needed, for further customisation.

2. GAMES TO TEACH SOCIAL RULES

Social rules are often assumed, not explained. Instead of telling your child “the rules”, let them play our Silly or Sensible? game. Each game teaches social rules in different contexts. You can then have fun with your child discussing the reasons behind each, and praise them for correct answers. It’s a light-hearted way of explaining social rules in advance. Fun sounds and gorgeous illustrations really set the scene!

3. VISUAL PLANNER TOOL

Seeing what comes next reduces anxiety and builds autonomy. Our Visual plans feature colourful icons and a timer function. Organise and adjust your activity list with the easy drag and drop function. Our Visual Planner makes it easy to involve your child in planning their day and allows them to see what’s coming next, which develops independence and autonomy.

The scheduling feature also includes a list of “sensory breaks” that have been curated by a paediatric occupational therapist. These are quick physical breaks designed to let off steam before returning to other tasks.

Why Courageous Kids?
• A library of unique, personalised social stories
• Your child is the main character in every story
• Complete personalisation throughout, including names and illustrations of adults
• Beautifully illustrated story scenes
• Option to swap illustrations for own photos
• 10 illustrated child characters to choose from
• 10 illustrated adult characters to choose from
• New stories each month
• Fun games to teach social expectations
• All stories reviewed by a child psychologist
• A scheduling tool with “movement break” ideas from an occupational therapist.
• Awesome tool for kids with autism or anxiety.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Ratings and reviews

Signed up so I could get access for a 7 day free trial, got charged right away. I can't actually make any selections to create any stories or plans. Extremely frustrating. I have to constantly restart the app, and I'm only able to progress for a few selections. Still have yet to be able to create anything. I will be requesting my money back, as i paid for a month for an app that doesn't work

Best kids app - makes me look like the world's best dad! Have used this app to support my son's transition to school and now using it for my daughter. Stories have really built their confidence. No one ever spoke to me about how I felt as a kid so having the exact words to spark meaningful discussion is pretty amazing. Closer to both my kids as a result. Morning picture plans also a winner

App is okay, finding it a little useful and would probably give it 4 or 5 stars except.... My wife bought it for iPhone and we expected we could use the one account and share the plans etc as we're taking turns doing the routines however it seems there's no ability to do this and I'm not paying another 80ish euro for that. Ill just make it in word and print it.

What’s new

Enhanced Design and Performance: We've made significant improvements to our app's design and performance, ensuring a smoother and more enjoyable user experience.
Try Before You Subscribe: You can now create a story, play a game, or design a visual plan without needing a subscription. Explore these features and see the benefits before committing!

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