Health Advocacy Curriculum
This program includes the Health Advocacy Book and DVD plus the Supporting Healthy Lifestyles Guide and the Student Workbook for adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities. This program consists of 20 one-hour lessons, each with teacher scripts for discussions and hands-on activities and student worksheets. It covers healthy eating, exercise, relationships, sexuality, stress and medical issues.
The DVD is for staff and shows the program in action. Supporting Healthy Lifestyles is an objective-based tutorial to help educators teach health topics to older students with developmental disabilities.
The Making Healthy Choices Workbook has numerous handouts from the other books in the program, includes activities to improve student health, helps instruct students to make and achieve personal health goals, and targets parental involvement.
The Introductory Kit includes a Health Advocacy Manual; Supporting Healthy Lifestyles Guide; the Making Healthy Choices Workbook for students; a PDF on Win/Mac CD with a Classroom License for printouts; and a staff training DVD.
The Classroom Kit includes 8 Making Healthy Choices student books, plus all other items in the Introductory Kit.
This program is ideal for:
- Special Education / Special Needs
- Struggling Learners
- Students-at-Risk
- Learning Disabled
- Remedial Education
- Differentiated Education