2 year old ideas
Several suggestions to adapt this app for a two year or possibly younger. (My son just tuned 2 this month and has been using your app for about two weeks.)
Instructions are too slow:
2 year olds have very little patience and listening while the app loads the words "find the other" long pause "monkey" is just too much to ask. Or "which fruit starts with the letter L". Your verbal instructions should be way faster and not given at every single card turn. You could also switch to an instructions first approach, have everything grayed out until the verbal instructions are complete. Then allow the taping to begin.
Random Tapper:
This also follows from not listening to the instructions. He will randomly tap until something happens. Now sometimes his random tapping is correct, sometimes its not. But when it is correct, the app will advance his progress and his report card shows that he knows blue and yellow, but has trouble with red. This isn't true, he just randomly got those right a few times. He will continue to randomly tap the "wrong" answers while the app is loading the "congratulations animation". It would be nice if the parents could lock his level at something until he is ready to advance. Alternatively the app could load the congratz animation way faster and/or continue to sense tapping (on incorrect answers) after the correct answer is chosen and penalize his advancement if this random tapping is sensed.
Switching matching game:
Parents need a way to turn off the cards switching places. Matching and remembering where they were is hard enough, he doesn't understand that they've moved places on him. And sometimes the app doesn't hold his attention totally, perhaps he looked at me or the dog and didn't see the eyes switch places ... this is just too complicated to explain to him. Perhaps you should give parents a way to opt out of certain games that are just too advanced for their child.
I have to help him:
This in another example of why parents need to be able to lock the level. I have to help him to understand how to do certain games (matching mostly), but because I'm helping him it advances his level beyond what he's really capable of.
Perhaps my kid is just too young for your app right now, but I feel that these are several suggestions that would broaden your appeal to the younger crowd.
Thanks.
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Anonymous commented
i also have a random tapper but he suffers from autism and is non verbal so sometimes it is right and sometimes it seems he knows but eliminates the other choices first..maybe if you make it so they have to tap it again or re-enforce their choice by incorporating a tug o war with the monkey making them tap it until they win maybe this will embed it into their minds better.