Check the time

About this visual support

A clock answers exactly one question: what time is it now. It says nothing about how long something lasts, how much is left, or whether there is room to start something before you have to leave. That is why a child can check the clock repeatedly and feel no calmer, and for children with ADHD the gap between the number and the sense of time is often wider still.

Visual support closes that gap by tying times to content rather than to digits. A picture of the clock beside a picture of what happens then turns time into a run of events, and that is a shape children can use. One tip tends to work quickly: place two clock pictures side by side, one for now and one for when something needs to be finished. The distance between them becomes something the child can see instead of a sum to work out.

In Routined each step can carry a visible timer, so time moves on the screen while the child works, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.