A response document produced by the United Nations Agency UNICEF. It outlines the increased risk factors associated with people with a disability, including potentially reduced access to information and response measures. The document warns that…
This academic article takes Dale and Salt’s 2008 Dale review paper on presumed developmental setback (DS) in children aged 16-27 months with blindness and visual impairment. It reflects on the paucity and complexity of extant data (and the challenges…
People living with visual disabilities/impairment are more likely vulnerable to get contracted from the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV 2) than people without visual impairment. This means more than 253 million people…
Authored by PIVOT (an organisation who gathered data on students and teaching) and Education Perfect (EP) a digital education platform. Based on a survey conducted between 9 and 13 April 2020, with 3500+ teachers in schools across Australia and New…
The second annual Global Learner Survey by an international ‘learning company’ who develop and deliver online learning services. The authors are part of the company’s Global Research and Insights Team. Surveyed “7,038 people aged between 16–70 years…
The authors, based in schools and Universities across the Philippines, conducted a two-week survey, distributed to Teachers, Edu Departments and Universities, receiving 2,300 responses to explore “teachers' awareness about the COVID-19 pandemic and…
This short document is produced by the IDDC IE Task Group. This task group is made up of members from a range of civil society organisations with a shared common objective on inclusive education in an international development context. It outlines…
This Position Paper’s authors work in Universities, Disability Resource Centres and clinical settings across the USA. It notes the disproportionate impact on children with a disability and other factors (“The phrase, “we are all in this together,”…
In this American Journal of Public Health Editorial, the authors build on a previous article to explore the impact of COVID on students with a disability in the context of Higher Education. They reference a survey conducted as part of a report…
The authors are from the Robert Hollman Foundation (“Consultation and Support for the Development of Visually Impaired Children”) and the University of Padova, Italy. This paper evaluates the Distance Support Program initiated following the lockdown…
