Tracto vs lumin&us®

Tracto brings the people around a child with special needs onto the same page. Parents, teachers and therapists share one picture of how a child is doing, and get practical guidance when they need it. NEW IN TRACTO 3 • A home screen made for parents: check in on your day with one tap, then journal, breathe, chat or watch. • Chat with Tracto: an assistant whose answers draw on Tracto's video guides, with videos to watch next. • Wellness: breathing exercises and four guided meditations with audio. • A Tracking hub with the Timeline, Trends and Care Plan in one place. • Nocturne, a new dark theme, and an Appearance setting. CHECK IN EACH DAY Start with how you're feeling. A daily check-in takes a second, and from there you can write in your journal, take a breathing break, ask a question or watch a short guide. TRACK WHAT MATTERS Keep a care plan of goals, medications and activities, and tick them off as the days go by. Trends shows progress over weeks, and the Timeline keeps every note, check-in and change in one place. ONE CARE TEAM Invite a partner, teacher or therapist to your child's Care Team, so everyone works from the same plan and sees the same progress. ANSWERS WHEN YOU NEED THEM Ask Tracto's chat assistant about routines, emotions, school or bedtime. Its answers are grounded in Tracto's video guides, easy to read, and point you to the videos worth watching. Free accounts include a few messages a day; paid plans include many more. LEARN AS YOU GO Short video guides in Explore cover everyday challenges, from calmer mornings to big feelings. A MOMENT FOR YOU Caring is demanding. Wellness has breathing exercises and guided meditations for a few minutes of calm, and gentle reminders nudge you to check in each day and write in your journal each week. PLANS Tracto is free to use, with paid plans for more children, larger care teams, journal attachments, all video guides and more chat messages. Paid plans renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage them in your App Store account settings. Terms of use: https://tracto.app/terms-and-conditions Privacy policy: https://tracto.app/privacy-policy Tracto supports, but doesn't replace, advice from your child's doctor, therapist or other professionals.

Welcome to lumin&us, the first play based, interactive App rooted in play therapy and Polyvagal Theory. Made for parents, carers, play therapists, counsellors, social workers, teachers to use with children, this App supports mental and emotional wellbeing through play based games and activities. Designed by parents and professionals, this App can: - improve and strengthen relationships and connections between adults and children - support good mental health - help you to understand the connection between thoughts, feelings and behaviours - help adults and children to feel more calm, content and comfortable - bring laughter and joy to family life - support relationship building for adoptive families ABOUT THE APP: Based on play therapy and the science of Dr Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, this resource has been created by social workers, play therapists and educators to support family life. It improves wellbeing and relationships by helping adults and children understand and identify the connection between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. We call our model 'The Lighthouse Model'. It was created as a way to continue supporting famillies during Covid lockdowns. Using this model, we find that children – and adults too – can make sense of how they are feeling which helps them to understand their behaviours and support regulation. Our model supports adults and children to find their way back to feeling safe through fun, interactive and engaging games and activities designed to improve relationships and support mental and emotional wellbeing. FEATURES: - Over 20 play based games and activities included to support children in each of the three states - Safe, Struggling and Drowning - 'Scan' feature helps adults and children identify and understand their current emotional state - Play based games and activities categorised in to Daytime Play, Out & About and Evening Play - Explanation of the benefits of each game or activity and list of resources needed - Supportive resources to help calm and comfort adults, parents/carers FEEDBACK: "This App has made a real difference. Before using the App, my son used to go straight to his room to play video games after school. Now he asks to play a game and we sit together, laugh and we end up talking about his day at school." Parent to 10 yr old and 8 yr old "The years go by so quick and there is always something to do around the house. This app has made us move playing together up the agenda. It has 100 per cent success rate. It always improves the atmosphere in the house and my son has never refused it." Parent to 7 yr old "We had used Beacon's paper-based resources which we loved, but they were difficult to use when we weren't at home. With the App I have the all the games in my pocket. It really helps calm my children (and me) when we're doing things like shopping or waiting in queues." Parent to 3 yr old and 6 yr old