How to tell the time to an adult

Hi,

Can you tell me does he also have trouble reading the time? (analog & digital) The reason i ask is that the RNIB came to our thoughts when our son had difficulty.

His time management is poor, but he would continually ask us the time as he couldn't read the clock face, but could understand time if told. The blind association have speaking watches, which you press and they tell you the time. Would this be of help or is it more about the Executive Function of his time management?

I've just posted a question re Executive Fuction, asking for strategies to be posted. some may come forward so do take a look periodically.

I must admit, we phsically made clocks with my sons. It made it three dimesional, tangable and an interesting project to build and assemble a working clock. From that we went on to add our own prompts next to the numbers such as 1/4 past and 15 next to the three etc.

One of my lads was much more interested in taking the workings for the hands apart to see how it worked, than building it, but it did serve a purpose whilst it remained assembled.

The good part was that the works are really cheap (99p or so on ebay) and can be sent with varying size hands so that you are not limited for space for the size of the face of the clock that you build. (You need a large face to be able to add the prompts next to the numbers.)

We used wood cut to size and painted for the face so it was more like model building for one of my sons. If your lad is into model building you can tailor it to be more adult if you think this strategy would work.

Be sure you make it clear to your lad that the position of the hands is important. We added numbers to our clock, but when confronted by a clock with roman numerals my son became paniced. By then he knew the position was a three, but didn't recognize the numeral. Some gentle revision using his memory, meant he could read both clock faces even though he couldn't recognize the numeral as a stand alone number.

Hope thats helpful

Regards

Coogybear

Hi,

Can you tell me does he also have trouble reading the time? (analog & digital) The reason i ask is that the RNIB came to our thoughts when our son had difficulty.

His time management is poor, but he would continually ask us the time as he couldn't read the clock face, but could understand time if told. The blind association have speaking watches, which you press and they tell you the time. Would this be of help or is it more about the Executive Function of his time management?

I've just posted a question re Executive Fuction, asking for strategies to be posted. some may come forward so do take a look periodically.

I must admit, we phsically made clocks with my sons. It made it three dimesional, tangable and an interesting project to build and assemble a working clock. From that we went on to add our own prompts next to the numbers such as 1/4 past and 15 next to the three etc.

One of my lads was much more interested in taking the workings for the hands apart to see how it worked, than building it, but it did serve a purpose whilst it remained assembled.

The good part was that the works are really cheap (99p or so on ebay) and can be sent with varying size hands so that you are not limited for space for the size of the face of the clock that you build. (You need a large face to be able to add the prompts next to the numbers.)

We used wood cut to size and painted for the face so it was more like model building for one of my sons. If your lad is into model building you can tailor it to be more adult if you think this strategy would work.

Be sure you make it clear to your lad that the position of the hands is important. We added numbers to our clock, but when confronted by a clock with roman numerals my son became paniced. By then he knew the position was a three, but didn't recognize the numeral. Some gentle revision using his memory, meant he could read both clock faces even though he couldn't recognize the numeral as a stand alone number.

Hope thats helpful

Regards

Coogybear