Playmobil City Life School Bus With Flashing Lights

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Now, if you haven’t heard of it before, a social story is a social learning tool that helps parents, teachers, or therapists communicate with autistic children (or adults!) about social situations that they may face.

I wait for the school bus at my bus stop. When I’m waiting, I stand on the sidewalk where I am safe. I like to talk to my friends at the bus stop.” We got out our PLAYMOBIL School Bus and A-Man loved acting out some of the steps we had just learned about riding the bus! There is a lot of social interaction involved with riding the school bus, from saying hello to the bus driver to letting a friend sit next to you. In the “I Can Ride the Bus” social story we talk about how to handle these social interactions so that your autistic child knows what to expect and what is expected of them when riding the school bus.Once we read the social story, we used the PLAYMOBIL School Bus to act out how you would stand with your friends and wait for the school bus, and how you would line up to walk on. I loved that the PLAYMOBIL School Bus is so realistic that it made it easy for my son to really dive into imaginative play. He got really excited that the PLAYMOBIL School Bus lights actually light up just like a real school bus. Once all the students were in the bus, A-Man had a blast driving the school bus around and yelling “beep beep!”

A-Man still uses a lot of scripting to communicate, so I couldn’t help but smile when he shouted “seatbelts, everyone!”When I’m looking for, or writing, social stories I make sure that they don’t frame natural autistic behaviors as bad, and we keep everything very positive.