What's inside: Progression Plan

Reduce Parental Prompting

The first step in the journey is to give your child a sense of ownership of his or her routine. Goally takes over as their personal assistant and acts as the “prompter” instead of parents. By doing this Goally alleviates many of the negative emotions and interactions that are a byproduct of parents having to continuously remind their child to complete activities. It allows parents to reset the relationship and starts building your child’s confidence in their own ability to be self-reliant.
Once your child has achieved a sufficient level of autonomy with Goally’s assistance, Goally will continue progressing them on their path to independence by gradually reducing the number of prompts given for each routine. i.e. “Fading the prompts” The milestones in this phase of your child’s progression plan will be very dependent on your child’s developmental level so will differ for every child.

Reduce Time to Complete Routines

By keeping your child motivated and on track, Goally typically reduces the amount of time taken to complete a routine by 30% or more. As your child becomes more proficient in completing tasks independently, Goally can continue reducing the time allotted for activities while staying within your child’s comfort zone. Goally will gather feedback from both you and your child to ensure your child does not feel rushed or anxious.

Adding New Skills

Goally can assist you in teaching your child new skills, both through helping motivate your child and in breaking new tasks down into easier steps when your child is learning new skills (Task analysis). e.g. Instead of a single prompt to “Brush Teeth” a child may begin with breaking that activity into 10 steps starting with “Pick up toothbrush”, “Open Toothpaste”, “Put toothpaste on toothbrush”...etc. For kids who are much more advanced in their development, adding new skills may be as simple as adding chores for which kids can earn bonus points.

Improve Quality of Activity Completion

With feedback from parents via the app, Goally can use expert knowledge to help motivate your child to improve the quality of the activities they are completing. This may be as simple as adding bonus points for activities your child doesn’t like, or advice from our trained support staff, specifically customized for your child.

Fading Extrinsic Rewards

The hardest part of implementing an effective motivation program to help your child is often keeping track of points and rewards. Goally does this for you. Goally also provides an expert-based wizard in the parent app to help you set the rewards and frequency which will be most effective for your child’s developmental level. As your child gains independence and competency in their daily routine, Goally will provide advice on how to slowly fade out rewards and build your child’s ability to delay gratification.

Goally helps my son

Goally has helped my son (who has autism and ADHD) to stay on track while getting ready in the morning and completing other tasks during the day. I no longer have to follow him around and nag!

OH. MY. GOD.

We just started with our Goally on Sunday and it's already changed our lives. Truly, I am in awe! If you have child who has trouble getting out the house without absolute chaos, it is life changing. How I wish we had this YEARS ago."

This product works

i don’t know where to start. our house would not be like this of it was not for our goally. it was like a crazy mess before we gave goally a try. it's been two months with the product and our life has changed. the headaches of getting them to get up and go to school or even night time routine have changed due to having the goally’s. i tell everyone about this amazing product <3 my boys are 7 and 10 with asd and adhd. i can’t thank you enough for helping our family

Holy Goally

We have used Goally for morning and afterschool routines for 6 months and it has worked wonderfully for us! Our 8yo has learned to complete chores and basic ADLs independently without argument. Goally recently came with us on vacation and he made up his own "Vacation Day" routine for getting ready in the morning (including reading/math time). It is a great visual for what is expected. We really enjoy using this tool as a way to support proactive skill development!

A better parent

The best difference the Goally has made for our family is calmer and organized mornings! Mornings were always my least proud parenting moments, with the stress of getting out the door. Now, their Goallies take the pressure off me, I am not yelling at them to get ready and they feel more independent. We leave the house much more positive and ready to learn and work. It also made me more organized to have all my tasks ready before them!

Goally is a lifesaver!

We have been fortunate to have been able to test and use Goally in our household for the past 1.5 years, and it has helped my autistic son develop independence with his daily living skills. Previous to using Goally, my son would require either parent to walk him through every single step in each and every daily routine, every single day. As you can imagine, this was truly a significant time investment as parents who have their own daily routines to get through each day. We had been working with his ABA provider on how to transition parent "prompting" into child independence, and the Goally filled that need perfectly. It was as simple as entering each step of each routine into the Goally, and then setting the Goally to go off at the designated time for that routine. My son took to the Goally immediately, and it was obvious that he was excited and proud about his ability to complete tasks without mom and dad needing to coach him through it! As my son gets older and masters various routines, and learns new skills, Goally is right there by his side to help him stay independent. We would recommend the Goally to any family who might be struggling with developing independence in their kiddo!

Amazing

We've had the Goally for three weeks now and I am very surprised at the behavioral changes I've seen with my child. My 10 year old now gets up and gets ready without the usual shouting. My child is motivated to earn the points and beat the timer for 'bonus points' when possible. Great tool!

Life Saver!

We have tried everything with our special needs kids, and nothing has even come close to how much goally has helped our family. It gives our kids the independence they crave most but still giving me the control I need to get what we need done every day! It's amazing!

Goally is a Game Changer

We’ve been using Goally for over a year with my HFA / ADHD 13-year old son who STILL needs to be cued to stay on task! Using Goally has been a game changer for me because it takes away much of the friction between the two of us during his routines, since he is following Goally and not my instructions. We work together to write his routines, so that he has ownership of what he does and how much time he needs to spend on each activity. He enjoys getting the points at the end of each routine, and we've just been experimenting with the new reward system. We’re excited about having multiple rewards that we've chosen visibly appear on our Goally to give him incentive to stay on task. I’ve appreciated the flexibility of being able to start his routines at various times. We homeschool, and since he seems to need so much more sleep right now, I like having the flexibility of letting him sleep later some days, but still start his routines. He’s a teen, so he has a love / hate relationship with Goally, because it tells him what to do, but I see the necessity of transferring cuing to an object; I can’t always be telling him what to do! I only gave 4 stars because there are still some glitches. But customer service has been fantastic, and the inconvenience of having a glitch has been worth it, since there isn't anything else like this product on the market.

Love this product!

We have loved incorporating Goally into our home. It is a really great motivator and drastically helps my kid with sequencing skills. Before using Goally, we had to give my child very broken down cues for most daily routines, and my child often required a parent to be right with him to guide him through each step. With Goally, he is able to carry out multiple tasks in a row autonomously. He loves earning bonus points when he does a good job, and is very motivated by seeing his progress towards his rewards. It has done wonders for our family! Thank you Goally, for delivering a tool that makes such a positive impact on our lives!

We LOVE using our two Goallys!!

We love our Goally so much!! We have a son and daughter with Autism and Severe Anxiety. For years we have looked for things that could help teach them and help them with structure, routines, and feel good about themselves. We started using Goally and the first week we were hooked. Tears and meltdowns lessened. My husband and I didn't feel like we were yelling commands at them anymore and life started getting more manageable. After 6 months I joined the Goally Team because I wanted to help educate and share how great the Goally was with more parents and families. We have now been using the Goally for over a year and there's no looking back. I especially love the days that the kids ask for their Goallys to get things done. My 3 year old watches them and now wants a Goally of her own:)

Helping Kids with Executive Functioning Skills

I have started using the devices with both of my children-ages 4 and 5-who have some challenges with planning, following directions, impulsivity, and memory. This has been a great way to create visual routines for them to build their independence. We’ve had a few technical challenges, but the team has been extremely responsive. It’s also really exciting to know that they take our feedback seriously.

Goally has changed our lives!

Goally has been a welcome addition to our family! Our mildly autistic daughter is so much more responsible and independent in her routines. Her pacing with those routines has improved dramatically. Yelling and tears and frustration have been largely eliminated and happiness and peace are more present in our day. We LOVE our Goally!!

Goally!

Goally has helped our daughter and our family keep consistent routines and expectations, give her more ownership of those activities and motivate her with rewards. Goally support staff are extremely helpful and responsive.

Great tool!

This has been a wonderful motivational tool to help keep my son on task. Our mornings and evenings go so much smoother now.

So helpful!

We originally got the Goally for my 10 year old with organization issues. It helps tremendously with independence. We got a second unit for my 13 year old, who has autism. He loves it, and he now goes to bed quickly and happily! We can't wait to see how it helps our other routines!

Life and Game Changer

My son has been utilizing Goally for a few years now. He struggles with everyday tasks because of ADHD and ASD. We saw instant gains once he began working with his Goally. He looked forward to the next alert and the subsequent sense of personal and independent achievement. Indirectly, Goally has taught our neurotypical family of the many things we take for granted. All the tasks that come so very easily to us are complicated and overwhelming to our little guy. We now truly understand how to support the success of our son and brother - that comes from working the our Goally over the years. I strongly and emphatically believe in this product. I see the impact it has on our emerging teen who desperately desired independence. Goally gave him that and more!