Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. The site is maintained by a professor of nursing who is using it to educate children and adults about the experiences and feelings of people growing up with medical problems, to provide children with age appropriate information about health, and to sensitize children to the issues that accompany illness. The site is divided into sections for child content, teen content, and adult content and discusses conditions ranging from asthma to hydrocephaly. It has essays, poems, and photographs that depict the variety of children's emotions as they battle disease or try to maneuver through the educational system.
Teachers can find suggestions for effective strategies to meet the students' special needs.
The site emphasizes that, when in school, the focus should be on the student's learning and not on the patient's medical problems. Visitors to the site can find Internet activities about children with medical problems and the lives they lead. Students can read the stories and respond to the discussion questions. For example, one story is about a visit to the hospital. The questions ask the students to reflect on their experiences in the hospital and to think why the people in the story behave the way they do.