Partner brief

Pediatric OTs, SLPs & Behavior Specialists · KudoKids partner brief

The home program falls apart by Wednesday.

You get a child for 30–60 minutes a week — the family has the other 167 hours. Right now, carryover runs on printables, laminated charts, and hope.

Cosmo

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Partner brief

What it is

KudoKids is safe screen time for kids 3–12 that instills growth.

Live in early access now on the web, iOS, and Android — a growing library of games and routines that turn the screen time kids already get into time that grows them.

HeartKindness, gratitude, and naming what they feel

HeadReading, STEM, and money smarts

GritRoutines, chores, and finishing what they start

Free for every family — routines, the full library of games, and a first companion are included. Premium ($11.99/mo or $99/yr) adds the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras kids earn through their routines — never a wall in front of the learning.

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How it works

Effort in, rewards out — and you decide what they're worth.

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Set the routine

You pick the tasks and responsibilities that matter this week.

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Kids earn Kudo Coins

Finishing tasks earns coins — visible progress, not nagging.

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You choose the reward

Coins buy rewards you set — including off-app screen time.

Earned, not handed over

The Kudo Coin — kids earn it, you decide what it's worth. Everyday effort becomes rewards a parent actually approves of.

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The cast

Twenty companions, each one cheering your kid on.

These are the faces of KudoKids. Every companion has its own personality — and thousands of sayings that guide, encourage, and celebrate your child as they grow.

Every family starts free with the Space world and Cosmo — Premium unlocks the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras kids earn through their routines.

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Pediatric therapists in focus

How it lands in the hours between sessions.

Home carryover

You set the plan in session. KudoKids keeps it running at home.

You set the focus in session, the parent builds it into the daily routine, kids earn Kudo Coins for finishing it, and the parent decides what the coins buy — so the plan runs every day instead of living on the fridge. Positive reinforcement by default: no failure states, no automatic coin deductions.

What the parent brings you

What the parent can tell you

The parent dashboard shows what kids are earning, playing, and learning, and the parent describes the week in their own words. You never access the family’s data. Kids also get drawing and short companion-guided exercises — everyday skill practice, never therapy.

Routines — a real screen from the app

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Why this matters

Three kids you already know.

They arrive with something to show

A kid who ran the routine every day for six days walks in already mid-sentence about it. That daily repetition is the part that was never getting to happen.

Tosh, Arnott & Scarinci 2017, Int. J. Language & Communication Disorders — speech home programmes beat no intervention only at high dosage with frequent therapist contact.

The screen starts working for the child

For a lot of these kids the tablet is the strongest thing in the house, and it is pulling against everything you send home. Earning it puts that lever on their side.

American Academy of Pediatrics 2016, Pediatrics — evidence on healthy media use supports no one-size-fits-all cap; the guidance is an individualized plan with parent-set rules.

Free for every kid, nothing to disclose

The kids who would benefit most are often in the households where one more subscription is the reason it doesn't happen. This one is free for all of them.

AOTA 2020 Code of Ethics — practitioners avoid conflicts of interest and must not use their position to create real or perceived conflict (Standards 1L, 1M).

Research behind the design — these researchers have not evaluated KudoKids, and we claim no results for children who use it

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Safe by design

Built to earn a parent's trust — and keep it.

No ads to kids

Children never see advertising inside KudoKids.

No strangers

No chat or contact with people your child doesn't know.

No child data sold

We never sell children's data. Ever.

No AI on kids' screens

The kid experience uses no AI — just carefully designed play.

No ads, everNo child data sold Ages 3–12

Recommended by child-development experts.

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Honest answers

The first three questions clinicians ask.

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Isn't more screen time the last thing my families need?

It's still an app with a growing library of games — we say so plainly. But the coins are earned by real-world routines, and parents can make off-app device time the thing coins buy. KudoKids is the screen-time companion that slows a kid down and makes the reward something they earned.

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Is this evidence-based? I can't recommend a treatment.

KudoKids doesn't claim to be a clinical intervention and makes no outcome claims — it's home-carryover infrastructure. You own the goals; the platform is the adjunct that keeps the plan alive between sessions.

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Does recommending this pay me — and do my ethics rules allow it?

Clinical partners have no financial relationship with KudoKids of any kind — the commission track exists only for commercial partners, and clinicians aren't on it. Families sign up directly and the core app is free to use: no procurement, no contracts, no student data.

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Forward this

Three sentences you can paste to a family.

This is a free app that turns the routine we've been working on into something your child earns Kudo Coins for at home — and you decide what the coins buy, including screen time.

I'm not paid to recommend it — there's no financial relationship. I like it because the parent stays in charge and everything the system needs is free.

Take a look at your parent dashboard before our next session so you can tell me how the week actually went, and we'll adjust the plan from there.

Swap in the exact wording that fits how you talk to the families, colleagues, or leadership you'd forward this to. Clinical partners disclose the partnership at the point of endorsement (the Letter of Understanding requires it, per FTC rules) — and the disclosure language is provided for you in the partner portal.

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Next step

Bring KudoKids to the families on your caseload.

One 2-minute application, reviewed in 3–5 business days. Clinical partners sign a Letter of Understanding — not a commercial agreement: no commission, ever, and the FTC disclosure language is written for you. Free for every family — nothing to buy, no procurement.

kudokids.org/partners/therapists

Questions → support@kudokids.org

No ads, everNo child data sold Ages 3–12

Live in early access now on web, iOS, and Android. Recommended by child-development experts.

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