Playmobil City Life School Bus With Flashing Lights

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Once all the students were in the bus, A-Man had a blast driving the school bus around and yelling “beep beep!” The lights at the front actually flash, and the bus door actually swings open like a school bus would. 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.” 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. He got really excited that the PLAYMOBIL School Bus lights actually light up just like a real school bus.

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. 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.

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. He had the students wait at the bus stop, and then made the loud noises as the bus pulled up to the stop. A-Man’s favorite part was saying hi to the bus driver because he pretended the bus driver was Papa! 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.

With this social story, your autistic child will have a solid understanding of the entire process of riding the bus to school each morning. 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.And the play sets help to develop both cognitive and social/emotional skills, and I’ve found them really helpful for my autistic son. 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.) and fantastical (like modern-day dinos).I was really impressed with the PLAYMOBIL toys that are high-quality and had such a strong attention to detail. I loved that the PLAYMOBIL School Bus is so realistic that it made it easy for my son to really dive into imaginative play. Hover over the image above to get the PLAYMOBIL City Life School Bus from Walmart!) Teaching Autistic Children to Ride the School Bus for Safety Kaylene George is an autistic self-advocate, author, and mother of five, including one autistic child. She realized her own autism as an adult shortly after her son received his initial diagnosis. Suddenly the parts of her that seemed so “weird” to society had an answer. 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.com.