Ride the lift
A lift gives no information while it works. The door closes, the stomach registers something, the numbers change and then the door opens somewhere else. The pictures below show the whole sequence so the enclosed part has an explanation.
♂Ride the lift
A boy stands in a lift pressing a green button, with the number 2 and up arrows.
♂Ride the lift
A boy stands in a lift pressing a yellow button with an up arrow.
About this visual support
Most of what we travel in can be seen: stairs are visible, buses have windows, an escalator shows where it ends. A lift is the exception. The room is closed, the journey invisible, and the only information is numbers changing at a pace you cannot influence. For anyone who needs to know what is happening in order to feel safe, that is a short but demanding moment, and the stress is rarely about the height itself.
Visual support makes the trip predictable before it starts. Press the button, the door closes, the lift moves, the door opens. Four pictures replace what cannot be seen with something that can be looked at beforehand and recognised on the spot.
A concrete tip is to let the child press the button. One element of control in a situation without control often makes the whole difference. In Routined the lift ride can sit as a few steps before visits to tall buildings, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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