Educational Resources
Whether you’re newly diagnosed or seeking ways to enhance your current care approach, these resources offer valuable insights and practical advice to help you lead a fuller, more active life while effectively managing asthma. Breathe easier with expert-endorsed information at your fingertips.
Seasonal Resources
We are all at risk for getting and spreading the flu. If you have asthma or other lung diseases, you are at higher risk of developing complications from the flu. Keep yourself protected with tips from our resources below.
Learn How to Use Asthma Medication Devices
Watch videos about using asthma medication devices and download the instruction pages.
Resources for:
- Assessing Asthma Severity
- Assessing Asthma Control
- Respiratory Medication Chart
- Stepwise Chart 0-4
- Stepwise Chart 5-11
- Stepwise Chart 12+
- Asthma Control Test 4-11 (English)
- Asthma Control Test 4-11 (Spanish)
- Asthma Control Test 12+ (English)
- Asthma Control Test 12+ (Spanish)
- Device Demonstrations
- What Are Your Triggers? (English)
- What Are Your Triggers (Spanish)
- Asthma Action Plan
- Asthma Medication Administration Form
- Rules of Two
- Using Your Inhaler/Spacer
- Know the Difference (English)
- Know the Difference (Spanish)
- Dusty the Goldfish (English)
- Dusty the Goldfish (Spanish)
- Device Demonstrations
- What Are Your Triggers? (English)
- What Are Your Triggers (Spanish)
- Asthma Action Plan
- Asthma Medication Administration Form
- Rules of Two
- Outdoor Air Quality Guidance
Asthma Trigger House
Asthma triggers are things that can cause asthma symptoms to flare up or make it harder to breathe. Many triggers can be found in your home and other places. Asthma triggers are different for everybody. Avoiding asthma triggers can help lessen your asthma symptoms. A plan to reduce or remove such triggers can be made with your doctor.
The faculty and students at Stony Brook Children’s, Stony Brook University, and Downstate Health Sciences University and the American Lung Association’s health promotions staff have created a fun learning tool called the Asthma Trigger House.
Use this tool to find and learn about common asthma triggers in a home. There are four rooms in our house to visit. Click on an item in the room to learn if it is a trigger and how to avoid or reduce the trigger.
Asthma Superheroes
The American Lung Association’s Asthma Superheroes is a free 15-minute interactive online learning course designed to help kids learn more about asthma. This course is ideal for school nurses, teachers, parents/family of children with asthma, community health workers, and other healthcare professionals working with kids, to complete with children who have asthma.
This program will teach children to:
- Understand what the lungs do and what asthma is
- Recognize and manage triggers
- Get help from an adult when they (or another child) are experiencing breathing issues due to asthma
"Let's Take Control of Asthma!" Flipchart
The Let’s Take Control of Asthma Flipchart is a validated educational tool based on the asthma self-management education goals of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Guidelines which can be tailored to the patient.