Managing Time and Routines with Time Timer

Are you constantly asking, “Have you put your shoes on yet?” during the morning rush?

In everyday situations, like getting ready for school or transitioning to bedtime, assistive technology can play a crucial role in helping your child manage their time, allowing them to embrace routines, rather than loath them.

Whether it’s age, a disability or ADHD, a child’s understanding of what mum or dad means when they say, “one minute”, “ten minutes” or a “half an hour” can be tough to comprehend.  As a result, parents find themselves repeating themselves, kids miss important tasks and deadlines, and stress levels increase for everyone.

Luckily, we offer a tried and tested technology that can help you, the Time Timer®.

What’s a Time Timer?

The Time Timer® presents time visually. It has a unique red disk that gradually disappears as the set time elapses. The red disk moves in a clockwise direction, mirroring the movement of an analog clock.

As the red disk shrinks, children can anticipate when a task is almost complete, promoting self-regulation and easing transitions from one activity to the next. This visual cue is particularly helpful for children who struggle with abstract concepts of time, as it offers a concrete and easily understood way of measuring time.

Encourage Responsibility and Self-Monitoring

In addition to aiding time management, the Time Timer® also supports the development of important skills like responsibility, self-monitoring, and independence. By incorporating assistive technology into daily routines, children can manage their time better, leading to smoother, less stressful days for everyone involved.

Anxiety Free Class Time 

Along with helping your kids get into a routine, the Time Timer® has also been a gamechanger for kids in the classroom environment. Lots of parents have been proactively working with teachers to ensure the pockets size versions called the Time Timer® MOD, can be set on their child’s desk. When a teacher asks for them to read or compete a task over 15 minutes, the ability to know what that means really reduces the child’s anxiety and builds confidence.

Activity Message Centre

If you want to take your Time Timer® to the next level, you can add a Time Timer® Dry Erase Board to the mix. It can be your activity and message centre for home and school. It is perfect for time-sensitive messages, visual schedules, to-do lists and to keep schedules on time.

Pictured is a combined unit, where the Time Timer® MOD fits into the dry erase board.

The Scheduler 

To accommodate the classic 8-inch Time Timer®, there is also the Visual Scheduler. It has everything you need to effortlessly create time-based visual schedules that all ages and abilities can understand.

Visual schedules paired with a research-proven countdown analog timer can be understood intuitively by people of all ages and abilities, including those with autism, ADHD, or other neurodivergent needs.

The visual timer provides a calm transition for every activity, and the visual activity cards let students and kids know what to expect. Use the included cards, or you can add your own!

Your Journey to Success

There is no one thing fixes all scenario here, but assistive technology, like the Time Timer® is a great place to start.

Check out the Time Timer range our website https://www.assistivetech.com.au/collections/time-timer and say farewell to repetitive sayings like “have you put your shoes on yet?”