Library · When Someone Is Talking to Me
without stopping the whole world.
You explain the afternoon, they are deep in the blocks, and the answer comes back before the message landed. Vivi turns that into a narrated, animated story your child stars in: pausing the hands, asking you to say it again, and checking what it means.
Who it helps
For children who answer without hearing, who are so deep in play that words bounce off, or who nod along and then do something else. Parents of autistic children and of children with attention differences use a social story like this because it shows listening without demanding eye contact or a still body.
The adult has a part too: getting their attention kindly, turning the noise down, and keeping it short.
Deep in play
Blocks on the floor, hands busy, and a parent starts to explain the next part of the afternoon.
The message slips past
They keep playing, or answer anyway, and only half of it went in.
Pause and ask again
Hands pause, "I did not hear that", and the parent says it again, short and close.
Checking the meaning
Saying it back in their own words, finding out they got it, and going back to play.
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 times a week at a quiet moment, and before days with a lot of instructions, like a trip or a visit. Listening is a habit, and the story gives the habit a shape.
Yes. What they are playing, what you are explaining, and the words they use to ask again, including a sign or a gesture. You read every page before it is animated and ask for changes in plain words.
Get their attention first, cut the background noise, and keep the message short. Then give them a way to say "say it again" without shame. A social story with your child as the main character shows that whole exchange, from both sides, as many times as they need.
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 When Someone Is Talking to Me, 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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