The experience of children with disabilities and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic: what lessons can we learn?

COVID-19 has had serious, negative impacts on children's health and development. But the impacts have not been felt equally. Disabled children and their families have been hit particularly hard. In this paper we summarize UK legislation to limit the spread of the virus and describe how services to disabled children changed as a result. We discuss the long-term deleterious impacts of changes in service provision on the health and wellbeing of disabled children and the parent carers supporting them.
Source: Paediatrics and Child Health - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Symposium: special educational needs and disability Source Type: research