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Why Choose My-Prompt

With so many excellent apps to choose from, you may wonder what sets My-Prompt apart. Perhaps, the most important feature of My-Prompt is our team of My-Prompt specialists who will show our Users how to utilise the app to improve executive function.  Our specialists are not only qualified mental health specialists and/or skills tutors but they are also accredited executive function coaches.   This means that Users do not have to experience any delay in getting support following their assessment.  As soon as they contact us they will be introduced to their specialist within 2 working days.

To Understand Executive Function is to Understand Support Needs

My-Prompt has been designed by a team that is largely neurodiverse and who have decades of experience supporting neurodiverse students. Our most effective strategies feature in our app and accompanying coaching. 

We have also taken onboard feedback from our students about what they find useful in their assistive technology, and what has not been as useful.  This has resulted in an app which is intuitive and immediate. 

Our My-Prompt avatar will encourage the User to keep returning to use the app and to encounter only positivity as they engage with its strategies.  For example, our My-Prompt avatar will perform visual displays of celebration for every completed task.  Our ‘My Rewards’ and ‘My Success’ timeline consolidate this theme of positivity.  Our avatar will also send positive affirmations and caring reminders throughout the day.

Client Feedback

Clients also shared with us that they are unlikely to engage with a stranger when at crisis point.  This is why we have produced a library of short videos so Users can immediately access audio and visual help such as, “Managing a Panic Attack,” rather than accessing a phone or text service.

Similarly, we have created a range of skills videos, covering areas such as communication strategies, report writing strategies, time management, organisation, behaviour change, so that Users can access a comprehensive audio and visual library of strategies.  New wellbeing and skills videos are released every month so Users can build their own bespoke range of topics.  Users can also request regular skills suggestions throughout the day such as,

“Are you having difficulty concentrating due to intrusive thoughts? Use your thought store in your My-Prompt Journal to note down thoughts that you can return to later in the day.”

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I don’t want to use assistive technology when I have to put more into it than I get out of it.”

One of the most popular features of My-Prompt is our solution to impaired working memory, where Users can utilise voice recognition to request reminders.  This will remove the anxiety that stems from forgetfulness and will help our Users to stay on task as they will no longer have to act on every thought that presents.  Instead, they can ask their My-Prompt avatar to remind them of what they need to do at a chosen time.

My Memory

Another feature that assists retention and consolidation is ‘My Memory’ where Users can create virtual flashcards.  Further strategies for revision and consolidation can be found in our skills video library.

Finally, something that we have included as part of our My-Prompt package is our My-Prompt journal.  Research shows the importance of handwriting:

When writing by hand, brain connectivity patterns were far more elaborate than when typewriting on a keyboard, as shown by widespread theta/ alpha connectivity coherence patterns between network hubs and nodes in parietal and central brain regions. Existing literature indicates that connectivity patterns in these brain areas and at such frequencies are crucial for memory formation and for encoding new information and, therefore, are beneficial for learning. Our findings suggest that the spatiotemporal pattern from visual and proprioceptive information obtained through the precisely controlled hand movements when using a pen, contribute extensively to the brain’s connectivity patterns that promote learning.
Van der Weel and Van der Meer, 2024

This is why we have incorporated optional short writing activities within our toolkit of strategies so Users can benefit from the advantages this brings in addition to those given by assistive technology.

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