🔊 Sovelo Stories · Loud & unexpected
Construction Noise
Machines outside are drilling and banging.. Read it together, at your pace. Every page is written in your child's voice.
1. Sometimes there is construction near my home or school. Machines dig and drill and bang.
2. Construction sounds are big and bumpy. Jackhammers rattle. Trucks beep. Bangs come without warning.
Rat-a-tat drilling, beep-beep-beep trucks, sudden bangs, a floor that might even buzz.
3. Sounds I cannot predict are extra hard. My body flinches. That is my body trying to protect me.
4. I can turn the noise down for my ears.
use my headphones cover my ears move farther away to a quieter room play my own soft music ask an adult for help
5. It can help to know what the machines are doing. They are building or fixing something. The noise is work, not danger.
6. Construction takes breaks too. Machines stop at lunch. They stop at night. Quiet keeps coming back.
7. One day the building is done. The machines drive away. The quiet stays — and there is something new to look at.
✦ Practice this story interactively — free in the Sovelo app
In the app, your child can choose what happens next, rehearse lines out loud with Spark, and try different endings — including hearing a kind "no" and being celebrated for respecting it. Parents can also create fully personalized stories.
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Sovelo Stories are original social narratives, written for neurodivergent kids and reviewed against strict guardrails: no eye-contact training, no masking, no mind-reading — and "no" is always a complete answer. Evidence-informed preparation, not a treatment. © Ezra Brown.