Ten minutes: a home session with Interlaza

The question parents ask us most isn’t about the science or the pricing. It’s this: “okay, but what do I actually do?” This article answers that. No theory — just a walk through a normal session on an ordinary Tuesday.

Before you start: the only things you need

A tablet positioned so the child can reach every target comfortably, and a short period when the room and the learner are available. Ten minutes is a useful upper bound for a first routine, not a quota. A smaller device may still work if targets remain comfortably tappable; check the actual activity rather than relying on inches alone.

A predictable cue can reduce the number of decisions: after the afternoon snack, in the same chair, or when the room becomes quiet. It does not have to be the same clock time every day. For some neurodivergent families, flexibility is what makes a routine sustainable.

Minute 0: you open the app

On the Family plan, the app opens on the Today screen. The day’s session is there, already prepared. You don’t pick exercises, you don’t configure anything, you don’t decide whether it’s “animals day” or “colors day” — the learning pathway is already planned from the last session that was saved.

You tap start and hand over the tablet.

The Today screen, exactly as the Family plan opens: the session is already prepared, and everything else — the two-minute readiness check, the three-tap daily log — is optional.

Minutes 1 to 9: your child works, the app adapts

What your child sees is simple: an image on top (say, a dog) and two or more options below. They tap the one that matches. Success sound, a small celebration, next one.

A real first trial with a new concept: the two wrong options start at 10% visibility, so getting it right is nearly inevitable. This is the errorless learning described below, photographed rather than promised.

What you don’t see is the interesting part:

At the beginning, getting it right is easy on purpose. The wrong options appear faded, almost transparent. That’s errorless learning: the first tries with a new concept are designed to go well, because repeated early errors can make an activity aversive for some learners.
Difficulty can adapt to response patterns. The app changes supports or comparisons under defined rules; the adult still judges whether sound, setting, motor access or fatigue make the session hard to interpret.
It’s not all matching. As the pathway advances, part-and-whole puzzles show up, memory exercises (“where was the cat?”), and find-the-different-one. To your child they’re different games; to the pathway, they’re ways of revisiting earlier targets and getting additional practice.

Your role during these minutes? Stay close, celebrate in the way your child prefers, and resist the urge to point at the answer. The app can adjust task difficulty from response patterns, but it cannot know whether the problem is sound, fatigue, motor access or the room. Give the learner time, then change or stop the conditions when needed.

Here is the whole session as the sequence you actually follow:

Step by step

Do this
Pick one fixed time and keep it.
After the snack, before the bath — which one does not matter. A session with a fixed place in the day stops being a decision.
Do this
Open Today, tap start, hand over the tablet.
The session is already planned. There is nothing to choose and nothing to configure.
Watch for this
Stay close and celebrate naturally.
Your presence is part of the session. The celebration on a success can be yours as much as the app’s.
Avoid this
Do not point at the answer.
Wait long enough to see the response, then consider sound, position, fatigue and access before assuming the task is too hard.
Do this
On a difficult day, stop without demanding one final correct answer.
Five useful minutes beat ten forced ones. Check that the session was saved, then return when the conditions are better.
Avoid this
Do not turn the session into a bargaining chip.
Using Interlaza as a toll for every preferred activity can reduce willingness. When possible, keep it as a predictable moment together.

Minute 10: the recap

When the session ends, the app shows you how it went: how many were correct, which concepts were practiced, and a short note in plain language — no cryptic percentages, no jargon. Thirty seconds of reading and you know whether today was a good day or a review day.

The Progress tab has the big picture: minutes practiced this week, comparison with last week, which targets have reached their configured criterion and which are still being practiced.

Bad days count too

There will be days when your child doesn’t want to, taps randomly, or gets up after three minutes. That’s normal. Stop when the session is no longer useful and check that it was saved: work from an interrupted session may be incomplete and cannot always be recovered. Two tips for those days:

Five useful minutes beat ten forced ones. Stop when the session is no longer helping; no final correct response is required.
Don’t turn the session into a bargaining chip. Making Interlaza the toll for every preferred activity can reduce willingness. When possible, keep it as a predictable moment together.

Offline, in two languages

Sessions are designed to run locally and sync when the connection returns, but the setting still matters: a plane, a waiting room and a quiet home are not equivalent learning conditions. In a bilingual home, Spanish and English are both supported; choose relations and languages deliberately rather than assuming that repeating one session in translation guarantees transfer.

Starting today

The Family plan comes with a 14-day free trial, and right now Interlaza is free for everyone until 30 November 2026. Ten minutes tomorrow after the afternoon snack — that’s the entire commitment it takes to see how it works.