Teaching Hands Clock - autistic children toys

Teaching Hands Clock

This innovative wall clock takes the guess work out of telling time by highlighting both the correct hour and minute numerals. The shaped hands of the clock are sure to attract your Autistic Childs' attention and help them learn to tell time quickly. Think of the hands as training wheels for an analog clock. The shapes at the end of each hand help train the Autistic Child's eye to look at the correct hour and minute.

This clock keeps excellent time and is easy to read. This clock is silent. It does not make a tick-tock sound.

When teaching small children to read an analog clock the clock face looks really busy to them, full of numbers and hands and marks, and it is hard for them to relate the hand position to just one number. It gets even worse with children's clocks that add lots of colors, drawings of scenes, figures or animal characters, eyes and faces and what nots! No wonder kids have a hard time learning to read an analog clock.

This clock is simple and easy to read. Even small Autistic Child understand how the hour hand relates to the number of the hour because of the helpful black circle. The minute numbers are red to match the minute hand color. I especially like the way the black hour numbers are arranged in a smaller circle inside the circle of red minute numbers. This makes it clearer to children that the "short" hand on any clock is the hour hand, and the "long" hand is the minute hand. By comparison, many clocks show the hour numbers on the same circle as the minute numbers which is confusing to children. This arrangement is much better.

This clock shows the minutes up to 59. I have seen some learning clocks which display the minutes before the hour as the minutes "to" the hour, e.g., 50 minutes would be marked "10 to". Either way is fine to me, but if you have a preference, that is something to consider.