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Challenges experienced by U.S. K-12 public schools in serving students with special education needs or underlying health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies for improved accessibility
BACKGROUND: Students with special education needs or underlying health conditions have been disproportionately impacted (e.g., by reduced access to services) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE: This study describes challenges reported by schools in providing services and supports to student...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9741764/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36610820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2022.101428 |
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author | Spencer, Patricia Timpe, Zach Verlenden, Jorge Rasberry, Catherine N. Moore, Shamia Yeargin-Allsopp, Marshalyn Claussen, Angelika H. Lee, Sarah Murray, Colleen Tripathi, Tasneem Conklin, Sarah Iachan, Ronaldo McConnell, Luke Deng, Xiaoyi Pampati, Sanjana |
author_facet | Spencer, Patricia Timpe, Zach Verlenden, Jorge Rasberry, Catherine N. Moore, Shamia Yeargin-Allsopp, Marshalyn Claussen, Angelika H. Lee, Sarah Murray, Colleen Tripathi, Tasneem Conklin, Sarah Iachan, Ronaldo McConnell, Luke Deng, Xiaoyi Pampati, Sanjana |
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description | BACKGROUND: Students with special education needs or underlying health conditions have been disproportionately impacted (e.g., by reduced access to services) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE: This study describes challenges reported by schools in providing services and supports to students with special education needs or underlying health conditions and describes schools’ use of accessible communication strategies for COVID-19 prevention. METHODS: This study analyzes survey data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. K-12 public schools (n = 420, February–March 2022). Weighted prevalence estimates of challenges in serving students with special education needs or underlying health conditions and use of accessible communication strategies are presented. Differences by school locale (city/suburb vs. town/rural) are examined using chi-square tests. RESULTS: The two most frequently reported school-based challenges were staff shortages (51.3%) and student compliance with prevention strategies (32.4%), and the two most frequently reported home-based challenges were the lack of learning partners at home (25.5%) and lack of digital literacy among students’ families (21.4%). A minority of schools reported using accessible communications strategies for COVID-19 prevention efforts, such as low-literacy materials (7.3%) and transcripts that accompany podcasts or videos (6.7%). Town/rural schools were more likely to report non-existent or insufficient access to the internet at home and less likely to report use of certain accessible communication than city/suburb schools. CONCLUSION: Schools might need additional supports to address challenges in serving students with special education needs or with underlying health conditions and improve use of accessible communication strategies for COVID-19 and other infectious disease prevention. |
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spelling | pubmed-97417642022-12-12 Challenges experienced by U.S. K-12 public schools in serving students with special education needs or underlying health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies for improved accessibility Spencer, Patricia Timpe, Zach Verlenden, Jorge Rasberry, Catherine N. Moore, Shamia Yeargin-Allsopp, Marshalyn Claussen, Angelika H. Lee, Sarah Murray, Colleen Tripathi, Tasneem Conklin, Sarah Iachan, Ronaldo McConnell, Luke Deng, Xiaoyi Pampati, Sanjana Disabil Health J Brief Report BACKGROUND: Students with special education needs or underlying health conditions have been disproportionately impacted (e.g., by reduced access to services) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE: This study describes challenges reported by schools in providing services and supports to students with special education needs or underlying health conditions and describes schools’ use of accessible communication strategies for COVID-19 prevention. METHODS: This study analyzes survey data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. K-12 public schools (n = 420, February–March 2022). Weighted prevalence estimates of challenges in serving students with special education needs or underlying health conditions and use of accessible communication strategies are presented. Differences by school locale (city/suburb vs. town/rural) are examined using chi-square tests. RESULTS: The two most frequently reported school-based challenges were staff shortages (51.3%) and student compliance with prevention strategies (32.4%), and the two most frequently reported home-based challenges were the lack of learning partners at home (25.5%) and lack of digital literacy among students’ families (21.4%). A minority of schools reported using accessible communications strategies for COVID-19 prevention efforts, such as low-literacy materials (7.3%) and transcripts that accompany podcasts or videos (6.7%). Town/rural schools were more likely to report non-existent or insufficient access to the internet at home and less likely to report use of certain accessible communication than city/suburb schools. CONCLUSION: Schools might need additional supports to address challenges in serving students with special education needs or with underlying health conditions and improve use of accessible communication strategies for COVID-19 and other infectious disease prevention. Elsevier Inc. 2023-04 2022-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9741764/ /pubmed/36610820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2022.101428 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Spencer, Patricia Timpe, Zach Verlenden, Jorge Rasberry, Catherine N. Moore, Shamia Yeargin-Allsopp, Marshalyn Claussen, Angelika H. Lee, Sarah Murray, Colleen Tripathi, Tasneem Conklin, Sarah Iachan, Ronaldo McConnell, Luke Deng, Xiaoyi Pampati, Sanjana Challenges experienced by U.S. K-12 public schools in serving students with special education needs or underlying health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies for improved accessibility |
title | Challenges experienced by U.S. K-12 public schools in serving students with special education needs or underlying health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies for improved accessibility |
title_full | Challenges experienced by U.S. K-12 public schools in serving students with special education needs or underlying health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies for improved accessibility |
title_fullStr | Challenges experienced by U.S. K-12 public schools in serving students with special education needs or underlying health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies for improved accessibility |
title_full_unstemmed | Challenges experienced by U.S. K-12 public schools in serving students with special education needs or underlying health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies for improved accessibility |
title_short | Challenges experienced by U.S. K-12 public schools in serving students with special education needs or underlying health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies for improved accessibility |
title_sort | challenges experienced by u.s. k-12 public schools in serving students with special education needs or underlying health conditions during the covid-19 pandemic and strategies for improved accessibility |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9741764/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36610820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2022.101428 |
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