Personal Hygiene

Personal Hygiene 

Some useful clips from the BBC

Washing your hands after using the toilet

Using a tissue when sneezing


Personal hygiene during periods

Cleaner Hands

Here are some resources for teaching hand washing to students with a learning disability.

From the BBC learning Zone, for young people with a severe learning difficulty (Milestone 8) Dirty Hands- a short animated film show a young man eating crisps with dirty hands.


Also from the BBC learning Zone (an Entry 3 resource)

A film :

The importance of Hand washing in Food Hygiene

Hand washing posters from Teachers Underground (Entry level)




Primary section of the Carex site has some good resources on hand washing You will need to register before viewing the resources.

Germs don't like soap animated film (shows vomiting!)


Three hand washing videos,although none are exactly what I wanted
hand washing on You tube

hand washing on Video jug

hand washing challenge

For further links and resources view my blog entries Clean Hands and More Clean hands

Toothpaste

Image: Imagine symbols

I love this blog entry from Autism Teacher about how she set up a tooth cleaning regime in her class and her dedication to saving toothpaste !

Life Skills from the BBC

Thanks to the SLD forum I have come across a great collection of video clips made for students with a learning disability.

They can be found on the BBC Learning Zone

The clips cover issues such as personal hygiene, personal safety, relationships and learning about personal belongings.

More Clean Hands

The handwashing session went well, See my blog entry Clean hands

There is still some individual work to do....
We also used the following resources:

When to wash hands ( you can download this from My Box net ) thank you to Teresa for making this resource available to everyone. It consists of 9 pictures and a heading page each on an A4 sheet which can be used for making group posters.

Hand washing Cut and Stick ( cartoon style)

based on the 6 steps to hand washing on the Scrub club website

There is also a resources from British Nutrition Foundation

hygiene

Clean Hands

image from:Imagine symbols

Our group has started cooking and we have some hygiene issues that need to be sorted out fairly quickly... ! So I will be looking at clean hands this week and using some of these resources:
Any other suggestions suitable for young adults with a learning disability are very welcome.

A blog entry from Teaching Learners with multiple needs: Germs and Flu Prevention includes a good explanation of a washing hands activity-Green Glitter Germs Lesson Plan

A hygiene bingo - and other resources Boardmaker 5 owners only !

A social story about teaching the importance of clean hands from polixo (Teaching Children with Autism)

The hand washing challenge is an site for children from the US. This may/may not be suitable as it is definitely aimed at children -otherwise it would be great

An Australian hand washing video, again aimed at children but I would use this with my adult students.



A handango activity PDF to download from the scrub club

An interactive online game about how flu spreads and the role of clean hands

To print out :A hand washing word search and a hand washing word scrabble from glogerm.com (entry level)

Also see my blog entry Food Hygiene