{"id":8693,"date":"2020-08-03T10:49:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8693"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:50:20","slug":"how-is-covid-19-affecting-the-mental-health-of-children-with-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities-and-their-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/03\/how-is-covid-19-affecting-the-mental-health-of-children-with-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities-and-their-families\/","title":{"rendered":"How Is COVID-19 Affecting the Mental Health of Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Their Families?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among 241 parents (92% mothers) of children with special educational needs and disabilities in the UK,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">many\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">parents and children experienced loss, worry<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and changes in mood and behavior as a result of the rapid social changes due to COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">S<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">uggestions\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">from parents surveyed about\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">the support that they would like in the COVID-19 pandemic\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">included specialist professional advice for parents focused on how to meet their child\u2019s educational and mental health needs<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0setting appropriate tasks and resources for home learning<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0and providing opportunities to see familiar faces,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">even\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">if connecting remotely<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Asbury et al. (July 31, 2020). How Is COVID-19 Affecting the Mental Health of Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Their Families? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10803-020-04577-2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10803-020-04577-<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among 241 parents (92% mothers) of children with special educational needs and disabilities in the UK,\u00a0many\u00a0parents and children experienced loss, worry,\u00a0and changes in mood and behavior as a result of the rapid social changes due to COVID-19.\u00a0Suggestions\u00a0from parents surveyed about\u00a0the support that they would like in the COVID-19 pandemic\u00a0included specialist professional advice for parents focused&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/03\/how-is-covid-19-affecting-the-mental-health-of-children-with-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities-and-their-families\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-8693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8694,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions\/8694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}