Arrive In Sweden
Landing in a new country where the language, the weather and everything around is unknown stirs a deep uncertainty about what will happen. The pictures below give those first days in Sweden something safe to follow.
♂Arriving in Sweden
A smiling boy holds a flag and stands on a map of Sweden with a dashed travel line.
About this visual support
The first meeting with a new country happens not in words but in the body. The air smells different, the sounds are unfamiliar, and the language around cannot be understood. For a child this means the usual ways of reading a situation suddenly stop working, and the uncertainty about what comes next grows.
Pictures speak a language that needs no words, which is exactly why they can carry a lot of safety in those first days in Sweden. When the child sees in pictures what will happen, where you are going, who you will meet, where you will sleep, the strange becomes a little less frightening. It can be understood without knowing the language, and it gives a sense of ground underfoot.
Choose pictures of the real places and people the child will actually meet, the home, the school, a neighbour, rather than general symbols. The recognition when you later stand there for real ties the picture and the reality together. In the Routined app you can add your own photos and build a safe arrival step by step.