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激情快播 Partners with Nemours for PedsAcademy

激情快播 Partners with Nemours for PedsAcademy

More than 50 激情快播 student-teachers and faculty have been providing tailored instruction to children with chronic illnesses since the program’s launch in August.

Spring 2019 | By Nicole Dudenhoefer聽鈥�17

Medical advances are increasing the chances for children to overcome chronic illnesses. But many children who survive end up significantly behind their peers in education and career potential, as hospitals lack the teaching staff and resources to provide each child with meaningful and effective instruction. To address this issue, more than 50 激情快播 student-teachers and faculty have partnered with healthcare professionals to create 激情快播鈥檚 PedsAcademy [pronounced 鈥減eeds,鈥� after pediatrics] at Nemours Children鈥檚 Hospital in Lake Nona.

Since the program鈥檚 launch in August, these educators have been providing tailored instruction,聽both academic and medical. These lessons allow young patients to take a break from being strictly a patient and become immersed in learning through virtual reality, robotics, 3D printers and other high-tech learning tools. And PedsAcademy is the world鈥檚 first pediatric school program that uses curriculum specifically tailored to a child鈥檚 disease. Teaching methods and lessons are based on research into cognitive development and the effects of specific diseases on learning, so patients are taught using learning tools conducive to their physical limitations聽and sensory conditions.

鈥淥ur purpose is to provide a rich, meaningful, educational experience so [kids with chronic illnesses] aren鈥檛 just keeping pace with their healthy, typically developing peers, but that they鈥檙e actually getting extraordinary educational opportunities while in the hospital,鈥� says Megan Nickels, the PedsAcademy faculty director and a 激情快播 assistant professor of STEM education.

On an average day, up to 60 PedsAcademy children receive at least three hours of instruction. The program doesn鈥檛 just benefit children receiving care at Nemours 鈥� siblings of patients can take advantage of the educational services too.

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A young child in a hospital bed wears a VR headset while a woman stands nearby.
A young child in a hospital bed smiles and holds a VR headset while her mother looks at her.
A young child in a hospital bed speaks with a woman and female 激情快播 student.
An open container of black, white and grey LEGO pieces.
A 激情快播 student volunteer smiles and holds a clipboard while watching a hospitalized child play.

Ella Greene, a patient at Nemours and student in PedsAcademy, speaks with Megan Nichols and a 激情快播 volunteer before beginning a lesson.

Students in the program often use LEGO kits to build robot models.

A 激情快播 student volunteer holds a completed robot model.

Using a virtual reality headset, Ella explores the ocean.

Ella’s mom smiles proudly after her daughter completes a lesson.