Episode 241: Have You Heard of Time Blindness? Did You Know It Can Cause Behaviour in Neurodiverse Students and What To Do?

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Supporting Neurodiverse Students with Time Blindness

Discussed in this Episode:

✅    What is Time Blindness?

✅    Behaviours you might see to indicate Time Blindness

✅    How to make time accessible and visual

✅    Time management is anxiety management

✅    Unless we give the students the tools to manage time, then you’re going to get a lot of anxiety and a lot of behavior.

✅    Routines are what give you a sense of time passing.

✅    The now, next, later. Time plus a schedule is what equals success

✅    We need to make time intentional and visual.

✅    If a child was colourblind, we would put in place support. And we need to make time much more accessible.

Understand Managing Time Blindness in Neurodiverse Students!

1. Use visual timers. Use visual timers, such as Time Timers, liquid timers, and portable digital schedules, to make time more concrete and accessible.
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2. Provide reminders and alarms to help students keep track of time.
3. Break tasks down into manageable chunks and discuss how long each part takes.
4. Teach time management skills explicitly, including planning, pacing, and having a “Plan B” if time runs out.
5. Positively reinforce students when they manage time well and arrive on time.
6. Incorporate routines and schedules to help students develop a sense of time passing.
7. Adapt time tools and strategies to individual needs and preferences (digital vs. analog, count up vs. count down).

2. Provide reminders and alarms to help students keep track of time.

3. Break tasks down into manageable chunks and discuss how long each part takes.

4. Teach time management skills explicitly, including planning, pacing, and having a “Plan B” if time runs out.

5. Positively reinforce students when they manage time well and arrive on time.

6. Incorporate routines and schedules to help students develop a sense of time passing.

7. Adapt time tools and strategies to individual needs and preferences (digital vs. analog, count up vs. count down).

GREAT TIMERS TO SUPPORT TIME BLINDNESS

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