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These are some of the real difficulties
experienced by young people who have an insecure understanding of time
concepts. These difficulties can impact
on their behaviour, learning and ability to function independently and may be
masked by young people using a range of strategies to 'hide' their lack of knowledge.
Time Matters contains resources that will help to:
-assess knowledge and functional use of
time concepts including calendar time, clock time, estimating time and
self-organisational skills
- provide fun and age-appropriate
resources to help teach time-related skills to children and young people from
the end of primary school through secondary school and beyond
-suggest strategies to support
time-related difficulties in a variety of settings
- raise awareness of the impact of
difficulties of time-related concepts
- provide case studies based on the
author's experiences of working with young people
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Recent
case
A young person (aged 17) recently gave a
great example of the importance of having secure knowledge of calendar time and
in particular the short date. He was
working at a Food Bank and was asked to sort out the tins. He had to put the tins with the shortest
shelf-life at the front of the shelf so they would get used first. He used his knowledge of time to carefully
sequence all the tins by their 'use before' dates. This is impossible to do if you don't know
the months in sequence...
It is always interesting to hear other
examples of time difficulties so please share some of your stories.
Case
Study
A Speech and Language Therapist had
assessed a young person (aged 14) and established they found it very difficult
to estimate time and would give wild guesses. This information proved important when the young person was questioned
in court and without it there may have been questions about the reliability and
truthfulness of their answers.
Let us know which resources you have found
useful from Time Matters. We are
really interested in hearing the impact of time-related work...
-Clare Doran, Sarah Dutt and Janet Pembery
Speechmark authors of Time Matters
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