Students that struggle with visual perception can be challenged by worksheets with faces of clocks. Learning to tell Time and Visual Perception Children learning to tell time are tackling a very abstract concept. Occupational therapists in the schools can work with kids on learning to tell time.įor school-based OT practitioners, there can be an added challenge in the time telling saga. There are tools and strategies that can help with these areas, such as timers, apps, calendars, planners, task checklists, visual schedules, and focusing on each of the executive functioning skills in a regimented manner (The Impulse Control Journal breaks this down for skill-building). Completing tasks in a given amount of timeĮach of these areas relate to executive functioning and time management.The amount of time needed to prepare for a task.The amount of time needed to accomplish a task.Occupational therapists can address time in these ways: Both of these scenarios result in poor performance of the task. Or they can underestimate how long a task takes to complete. Time management impacts occupational performance because one can overestimate how much time they have to complete a task. Time management also includes management of the time one has to complete a task in a given time. Time management refers to the ability to estimate how much time one has to complete a task. So, when daily occupations need to be accomplished throughout the day, or in preparation to leave the house, time is a big component. We also address self-care and any occupation that takes up a person’s day. In occupational therapy, we work on time management as well as other executive functioning skills.
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