asthma & schools
asthma & schools
School Asthma Management Program
Step by step forms to begin a School Asthma Management Program at
your own school.

Asthma Self-Management Information
Tools to help your students with asthma in their daily management.  These
tools can be used in the school setting or at home.

Education Tools:
Asthma Basics Powerpoint Presentation

Pictures to aid in Education

School Asthma Poster
     A download-able poster to hang up in nurses offices, gymnasiums,      
     classrooms, etc.

Quest for the Code Computer Game

Asthma Tools for School Districts:
Asthma Checklist for Schools

Asthma in Schools

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools

CDC’s School Health Index- Asthma Component

EPA’s IAQ Tools for Schools

Asthma Free School Zone

Inhaler Law
New York State Consolidated Laws: Education
S 916. Pupils afflicted with asthma. The board of education or trustees of
each school district and board of cooperative educational services shall
allow pupils who have been diagnosed by a physician or other duly
authorized health care provider with a severe asthmatic condition to carry
and use a prescribed inhaler during the school day, with the written
permission of a physician or other duly authorized health care provider,
and parental consent, based on such physician's or provider’s
determination that such pupil is subject to sudden asthmatic attacks severe
enough to debilitate such pupil. A record of such permission shall be
maintained in the school office