Go to a concert
Going to a concert brings loud sound, crowds and waiting, factors the child cannot steer. Pictures of the whole outing give something to hold on to when the impressions pile up. See the support below.
♀Go to a concert
A person at a concert holds up a phone while music plays.
About this visual support
Going to a concert is exciting, but it is also one of the situations where the child has the least control. The volume is decided by someone else, the audience moves unpredictably, and the waiting before and between songs can feel long. For a child who is easily overwhelmed, it is often not the music but everything around it that becomes too much.
Visual support gives back a sense of knowing what will happen. When the whole outing exists as a sequence of pictures, from travelling there and queuing to standing in the crowd and going home, the unpredictable becomes more graspable. The child can see that the waiting has an end and that the evening has a shape, even if the sound and the people cannot be controlled.
A tip: decide in advance where you will stand and what you do if it gets too much, and show it on a picture. Having a plan for breaks makes it easier to dare to stay. In the Routined app you can build the whole concert evening as a picture series, so the child knows what is coming from start to finish.
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