iControlPlayer app for iPhone and iPad

iControlPlayer is a great iPad app for parents to take control of their young child’s youtube experience.

The main function of the app is to allow parents to set the amount of time a child can watch Youtube videos, control the number of times the same video can be played, disable features such as volume control and seek bar search.

Never saves search queries, no Youtube share buttons, never collects private details.

This player does not suggest searches either

Disable Youtube Seek-Bar

This feature allows parents to disable the seek bar when watching videos, this is great to teach children to watch the entire video and not be able to continually scroll back to the same part of the video over and over.

Limit the App Usage Time

Parents can limit the amount of time the app can be used for, simply by enabling a passcode and setting a time from 1 minute through to 1 hour

Limit the Number of Times the Same Video Can be Played

This is a great feature to encourage kids to watch more than one video over and over

iControlPlayer and ASD - Autism

When a person with autism spends their free time engaging in behaviour like viewing and watching the same scene in a movie over and over, he/she is not achieving anything.

This behaviour is isolating and never allows for the opportunity to experience something new.

Antecedent Based Intervention (ABI) are effective in reducing repetitive, stereotypical and self stimulatory behaviours in people with ASD. ABI’s are strategies in which environmental modifications are used to change the conditions in a setting that prompt a person with ASD to engage in a repetitive behaviour. Many repetitive behaviours continue because the environmental conditions in a particular setting have become linked to the behaviour over time.

The goal of ABI is to identify factors that are reinforcing the repetitive behaviour and then modify the environment or activity so that the factor no longer elicits the interfering behaviour.