My sister is going on holiday this summer and is trying to prepare my niece for flying on an aeroplane for the first time. My niece was diagnosed with autism recently and is really struggling with the thought of flying. She is looking forward to the holiday but is having meltsdowns about flying and we have fears that she won’t get on the plane.
My sister and I are teachers and have experience with preparing visuals and social stories to prepare her. However, we feel this will not be enough for her.
We were wondering if there is anywhere we could take my niece to experience the inside of an aeroplane, walk around, sit down so that she can experience what it is like. We know there are lots of air museums however most of these have military planes or Concordes and you can’t go inside the cabins. I thought that maybe this community may know of any experiences that we can pay for or places to go that may be able to help us with this?
