AbleLink Technologies Announces
My Health, My Choice, My Responsibility
for the iPad
Colorado Springs, CO–- AbleLink Technologies announced the release of My Health, My Choice, My Responsibility, a cognitively accessible self-directed learning App covering eight important topics necessary for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
The App results from a partnership between AbleLink and the Westchester Institute for Human Development (WIHD), a leader in promoting health for individuals with special needs – particularly those with significant health disparities. My Health, My Choice, My Responsibility is designed to be used directly by persons with special needs, in order to learn about healthy living in a self-directed manner, or as part of a group learning activity facilitated by an instructor using the Trainer's Manual.
My Health, My Choice, My Responsibility is a training program developed at WIHD in collaboration with the Self-Advocacy Association of New York State (SANYS), and was written by Marilyn Vitale, Mitchell Levitz, and Daniel Crimmins. The project helps individuals with developmental disabilities make healthy choices and learn to speak up for better health.
The program consists of eight sessions in which learners can watch a video covering the selected health topic, review a “Things to Remember” list using AbleLink's AIMS task format, and complete a short survey to test their knowledge using AbleLink's cognitively accessible testing system, ATLAS (patent pending). Three additional health tools are available online for use with the system: My Medical Appointment (a form to help prepare for medical appointments), Health Information Form (a record of personal health needs and history), and My Health Plan (a listing of goals developed during the seminar). Users and learning facilitators can download these forms for use with the My Health, My Choice, My Responsibility App.
Session titles include:
1 – Taking Charge of Your Health
2 – Develop a Health Plan
3 – Be a Health Self-Advocate
4 – Get Moving
5 – Eat Right
6 – Be Healthy at Home
7 – Feel Good About Yourself and Others
8 – Stay on Track
My Health, My Choice, My Responsibility joins AbleLink's growing family of iPad/iPhone applications designed to be used by individuals with special needs. For other cognitively accessible titles from AbleLink, visit Apple's App store and search for "AbleLink Technologies.”
My Health, My Choice, My Responsibility is available now in the iPad App store at the introductory price of $49.99.
