ClickIT
The click, engineered properly.
A click is one of the most versatile behavioural tools ever made. Most people reach for ClickIT to keep their hands busy. Some use it to train a dog. It's the same clicker either way.
Shop the clicker →The Clicker.
ClickIT ships in two variants: silent and audible. Same clicker, same build, different sound.
Silent suits quiet spaces. Audible suits training. Neither is locked to one use, so pick whichever fits how you'll use it.
For focus.
ADHD is now the most commonly diagnosed long-term condition among children and youth in Canada.
Prevalence rose from 6.7% in 2019 to 8.4% in 2023. Autism rose from 2.0% to 3.0% over the same period.
One in four Canadian children and youth, more than 1.6 million kids, now has at least one diagnosed long-term condition (Public Health Agency of Canada, Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth, 2023).
Fidget spinners answered that need badly enough to get banned.
At the peak of the craze, about a third of the top 200 US schools banned fidgets outright.
The research backs the bans, at least for spinners. Studies found they increased distracted behaviour in kids with ADHD and dragged down third-graders' math scores.
One university lecture study found spinners cut retention substantially for the student using one, and measurably for students sitting nearby.
The problem is that spinners are visual. They demand hand-eye coordination.
That pulls the user's eyes, and their neighbours' eyes, off whatever they're supposed to be doing.
Occupational therapists have always recommended the opposite: something tactile, worked by feel, that never asks to be looked at.
The other complaint is volume.
Ask teachers and they're close to unanimous. The fidgets that survive in a classroom are the quiet ones.
A clicking pen is the textbook example of what not to do.
ClickIT is built to the constraint teachers actually name: feedback you can feel without looking, at a volume the room never hears.
Most fidget brands would rather you didn't look too closely at the research. ClickIT is built assuming you will.
The evidence that fidget tools improve attention or grades is weak.
A controlled classroom study of a leading tactile fidget, the Fidget Cube, found no improvement in on-task behaviour or math productivity. Its authors suggested schools consider phasing fidgets out entirely (Croley, Drevon & Decker, 2022).
The honest summary across reviews: fidgeting doesn't reliably improve attention.
At best, for some people in some contexts, it may displace more disruptive habits and support self-regulation (Edutopia, 2024).
ClickIT doesn't claim to improve focus, attention, grades, or ADHD symptoms. We're saying that plainly, because it's true, and because this isn't a treatment.
It's a self-regulation tool engineered to be the least disruptive option in the room.
Teachers already settled this. Fidgets are fine when they're tools, not toys, which means quiet, tactile, and put away when they stop helping.
Bringing ClickIT to your space?
ClickIT is built for schools, daycares, kindergartens, pediatric dental offices, and children's hospitals. Tell us your unit count and we'll follow up with a custom quote.
It also works for training.
People also use ClickIT for dog training and marker-based training more broadly. It's a genuine second use case, not a separate product.
A clicker is an event marker. The sound is short and identical every time, and unlike a spoken word, it lands at the exact instant a behaviour happens.
Paired consistently with a reward, that sound becomes a conditioned reinforcer. The animal learns the click itself means "that, right there, was correct."
B.F. Skinner introduces the clicker as a conditioned reinforcer, in "How to Teach Animals" (Scientific American).
Marian and Keller Breland commercialize clicker training.
Refined on dolphins in marine mammal parks through the 1950s and 60s.
Karen Pryor popularizes clicker training beyond the marine mammal world.
TAGteach adapts the same marker principle for people.
Today: ClickIT builds the mechanism into one pocket tool.
The breadth is what makes this interesting. Dogs and horses, obviously, but also zoos and aquariums, where accredited facilities use marker training so animals take part voluntarily in their own veterinary care: elephants presenting a foot for a pedicure, voluntary blood draws, tortoises and storks stepping onto a scale, macaws, primates, reptiles. Laboratory animal welfare programs use it too, and so do shelter and rescue rehabilitation programs.
The human branch is called TAGteach, Teaching with Acoustical Guidance. It's the same marker principle applied to people, and it shows up in elite gymnastics and dance, professional golf instruction, yoga, orthopedic surgical technique, emergency nursing, physical therapy and gait retraining, speech therapy, special education and mainstream classrooms, and workplace safety training. A click can mark a body position a learner can't see themselves, toes pointed, back straight, at the exact moment it's correct, which spoken feedback always arrives too late for.
The training literature is mixed on whether a clicker actually outperforms other consistent markers, a verbal "yes," a whistle. We're not claiming it does.
What's true and well documented is the consistency and the timing precision. This is the tool the field standardized on.
Training your dog? The same clicker works.
Shop it →Who it's for.
Institutions and classrooms
- Schools
- Daycares & kindergartens
- Pediatric dental offices
- Children's hospitals
- OT clinics
- Offices
Training and behavior work
- Dog trainers & owners
- Obedience clubs
- Shelters
- Stables
- Veterinary practices
- Coaches & instructors
Ordering for a school, clinic, or institution? Request a pilot kit →
Sources & further reading.
- Public Health Agency of Canada: chronic conditions in childhood, prevalence
- Scientific American: "Fidget Toys Aren't Just Hype" (2017)
- Edutopia: "Do Fidgets Help Students Focus?" (2024)
- Croley, Drevon & Decker: Fidget Cube classroom study, Behavior Analysis in Practice (2022)
- Fidget devices and disruptive behaviour in students with autism, Contemporary School Psychology (2025)