Playmobil City Life School Bus With Flashing Lights

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If more storage space for luggage is needed for special school trips, the school bus also has a trailer hitch. The waiting children board via the folding ramp for wheelchairs at the rear doors or via the sliding door at the side.

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. Kaylene George is an autistic self-advocate, author, and mother of five, including one autistic child. Waiting at a bus stop can be dangerous if children don’t understand the social norms of where to stand and how to act while waiting. With this social story, your autistic child will have a solid understanding of the entire process of riding the bus to school each morning. I’m sure most of the kids would figure it out naturally, but I know that A-Man needs a lot of exposure before he can truly process how to do something.The lights at the front actually flash, and the bus door actually swings open like a school bus would.

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. And if you’re working on teaching autistic children to ride the school bus, this is the post for you.He had the students wait at the bus stop, and then made the loud noises as the bus pulled up to the stop. Missed payments may affect your ability to use Clearpay in the future and your details may be passed onto a debt collection agency working on Clearpay's behalf. 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!

I loved that the PLAYMOBIL School Bus is so realistic that it made it easy for my son to really dive into imaginative play. Easily access the spacious interior, with seating for up to seven figures, thanks to the removable roof. To make the interior easier to play with, the roof of the driver's cab and the roof insert are removable. My dad has been a school bus driver since I was in junior high, and my kids think that’s the coolest thing ever.

Clearpay lends you a fixed amount of credit so you can pay for your purchase over 4 instalments, due every 2 weeks. A-Man still uses a lot of scripting to communicate, so I couldn’t help but smile when he shouted “seatbelts, everyone! Accessory elements include backpacks, lunch bag, pencils, fire extinguisher, notebook and stop sing. Because I’m going to share exactly how to use imaginative play and an “I Can Ride the School Bus” social story to teach autistic children to ride a school bus.

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! PLAYMOBIL brings you imaginative play sets focused around iconic figures from a variety of worlds, both realistic (like police, firemen, school buses etc.Now if he starts to ride the school bus, or he goes for a ride with Papa, he knows what to expect and we can have a meltdown-free bus ride! All you need for this activity is the PLAYMOBIL City Life School Bus, and the “I Can Ride the School Bus” Social Story Printable that you can download before! The set includes three PLAYMOBIL figures, a school bus, a wheelchair, backpacks and other great extras. Since then, Kaylene has passionately shared about her experiences with autism from both sides of the great divide between parents and autistic self-advocates on AutisticMama.