Library · Getting New Glasses
and seeing the difference.
The eye doctor, the frames on the wall, the first moment they sit on the nose and the room goes sharp. Vivi turns getting glasses into a narrated, animated story your child stars in, so the shop and the feeling on their face are already familiar.
Who it helps
For children who worry about how glasses will feel or how they will look, and for children who find anything new on their face hard to tolerate. Parents of autistic children and children with sensory differences often watch a social story like this before the shop visit and again in the first week of wearing.
Put in the real details: the color of the frames and what your child wants to see clearly.
At the eye doctor
A dim room, a chart on the wall, letters or pictures, and a doctor who asks which looks clearer.
Choosing frames
Rows of frames, trying some on, looking in the mirror, and picking the ones they like.
Putting them on
The arms over the ears, the pads on the nose, a new feeling that gets smaller each day.
Seeing clearly
Leaves on the trees, words on a sign, a face across the room. The difference is the point.
Yours, not ours. These are the moments a story like this usually walks through. You choose what goes into your child's, and read every page before it is animated.
Questions parents ask
A few days before the eye doctor, the morning of, and then once a day in the first week with the glasses, while wearing them is still new.
Yes. Tell Vivi the color and shape, the name of the shop, and who is coming along. You read every page before it is animated and ask for changes in plain words.
Show what will happen at the shop in order, name the feeling on the nose and ears in advance, and start with short stretches of wearing. A social story with your child as the main character gives them the sequence and the reason, seen before the first fitting.
Your first story is free in your first 30 days. After that you buy credits: 3 for $9, 10 for $26 or 30 for $66. A story is 1 credit, and a Fully Animated story is 10 more. Your first routine, Choose-Along and plan are free, then 1 credit each. Bought credits never expire.
Your first story is free. Set up your child, start from Getting New Glasses, and watch it together before bed.
Vivi Kids is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Carol Gray or Team Social Stories.
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