Use visual timing tools like the 3-board, 5-board, and Clockwood timer to teach children to wait. Update the visual every 10-15 seconds to show progress, but only when there's a real reward at the end, like waiting for a bus or taking a turn in a game.
These little waiting visuals have a 3 board and a 5 board, and then the Clockwood is actually similar. But basically, you can use these pieces and use it to identify any time interval you want. Like, this can mean 2 minutes, this can mean 2 seconds, this can mean 5 minutes, whatever will help show the student that the time is not up yet. So maybe you are working on waiting to transition somewhere and it's a minute, and that's kind of a hard time for this child to wait. You know, every 10-15 seconds you can give one of these to show that, you know, okay, waiting's almost done. And with things like this, we definitely want to only be using these for things that they're actually going to get something awesome at the end, not just waiting to wait. Like waiting in times where it's naturally occurring, like we wait to go get on the bus or go, um, it's our turn at a game or our turn to go do something fun. So there are definitely times in life when you have to wait, but don't— I, I don't love the contrived waiting. I like waiting when there is actually something to wait for.
