Supporting students with reading challenges during COVID

A new study of more than 800 teachers exposes how teachers of students with checking out difficulties such as dyslexia, cerebral palsy, and low vision encountered even more difficulties as they browsed for distinct and innovative methods to support learning for these students. The study originates from nonprofit ebook library Bookshare.

Just 47 percent of surveyed instructors stated their trainees with checking out challenges were able to adequately learn and check out. When they have the ability to learn and read, elements such as support from moms and dads or caregivers (69 percent), assistance from teachers and the school administration (67 percent), access to house web (77 percent), access to innovation resources (79 percent), and access to books in the format trainees need (75 percent) add to trainees ability to find out.

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Laura Ascione is the Editorial Director, Content Services at eSchool Media. She is a graduate of the University of Marylands prominent Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

Its been said a million times: COVID-19 provided an academic year like no other. The obstacles of an abrupt shift to virtual and hybrid instruction shed light on socio-economic disparities, the battle for internet and gadget access, and the problems in getting resources to trainees with special needs.

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