February 01, 2001

New Asthma Problem-Set Helps Users Learn About the Condition

"Air Aware," one of two IMMEX problem-sets created for the asthma education program of the same name - AIR AWARE - is now available over the web. Air Aware is an asthma education program that encourages and educates parents and children who live with asthma to become better caretakers of the illness. Through multiple education activities both children and parents learn to adopt successful asthma management strategies so that prevention and treatment of attacks become a regular part of their lifestyle.

"Air Aware" challenges students and parents to access, interpret, and synthesize multiple pieces of information that determine how they will manage the asthma episodes described in multiple scenarios such as:

• Indicate the status of the asthma episode

• Identify the asthma trigger

• Present the environmental conditions at the time of the episode

• Offer choices of medicine for treatment of an attack / call 911

"What's the Asthma Trigger?" the second new problem-set to become available early next year, acquaints students and parents with asthmas triggers and ways to avoid triggers that can lead to an asthma episode.





Both sets come with a preview problem, an embedded dictionary featuring commonly used asthma vocabulary.  Both will soon be available to teachers, students, and parents in Spanish.