WSU Opportunity for Families of Students with ASD

 Hello!  

 

We hope this email finds you and your family healthy and well! We are reaching out with a new and exciting health and physical activity research program opportunity for your child and family.  

 

Dr. Leah Ketcheson and the Center for Health and Community Impact at Wayne State University was awarded $500,000 from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to launch PLANE (Physical Literacy and Nutrition Education), a two-year nutrition and physical activity program aimed at promoting positive trajectories of health and well-being for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families. Our program will be online for year 1 (due to the Coronavirus Pandemic), with in-person programming in year 2.  

 

Our goals are to increase physical activity participation, improve nutrition behaviors, and build engagement in social support and services. Our curriculum includes a weekly online lesson, activity worksheets, bi-weekly grocery pick-up with snack recipes to try, a weekly check-in via Zoom with your family’s coach, and sports equipment to engage your family in activities in year one with in-person engagement and programming to follow.  

 

If you are interested in enrolling your child with ASD and your family in PLANE, please email lightup@wayne.edu for more information and next steps!

 

Smiles,

​Your WSU APA Team

Matthaei Center / Parking Lot 50

Wayne State University 

5101 John C Lodge

Detroit MI, 48202 

Email: lightup@wayne.edu 

KHS Mission: To prepare professional practitioners, researchers, and industry leaders to drive a healthy society and promote health equity among diverse populations locally, regionally, and globally through programs in athletic training, community health, exercise and sport science, health and physical education teaching, lifetime fitness activities, and sport management.