Unique features and user interface help you focus on your child's development

The Unique Features of PPOD™

PPOD is a web-based, online service. It uses a new and novel system/interface for navigating content within a progression (grid). This navigation system is based on a proprietary design called Kontinuums™ (patents pending) which has been developed by SurfWax, Inc., a pioneer of web-based search and collaboration tools.

• Easy-to-use with access from either a desktop computer or mobile device
• Interactive and personalized for your child, with fingertip navigation
• Covers 108 key developmental milestones
• Provides color-coded, visual tracking of your child's progress/development
• Organized to match the 12 well-child visits
  
• Provides hundreds of warm home- and family-based activities—written from the child's point-of-view
  
• Provides a comprehensive Glossary with fingertip access to over 150 terms helpful to parents
  
• Provides comprehensive Safety tips
• Provides 4 Criteria Levels for each milestone that parents select, date, and annotate as their child progresses
  
• Provides a special strand on Growth that factors in prematurity and helps address obesity
• Provides wonderful education-support for parents
• Provides important anticipatory guidance
• Prepares parents for their child's visit and discussions with the doctor
• Helps parents better articulate concerns with the doctor
• Provides a brief Talking Points report to guide discussions with the doctor
• Provides two developmental reports for use with the doctor: Short Report and/or Full Report
• Parents can email/print reports prior to their visit with their child's doctor
• Parents can provide feedback to VORT on how PPOD is working for them. This encourages participation. Parents can let us know what they think about PPOD by completing an anonymous survey. They can also submit their great activity idea for consideration as PPOD’s “Activity of the Week!”
• Parents can submit activity suggests to PPOD's author for consideration as the “Activity of the Week.”
  This lets PPOD users share their experiences and insights and help other members of the PPOD community nurture and facilitate their child's development. Activity submissions are reviewed weekly. The author chooses the new activity to post in PPOD as the “Activity of the Week!”