The coronavirus pandemic has created significant challenges for teachers and students as they adapt to distance learning. Parents of students with disabilities face additional hurdles. Five-year-old ...

As summer transitions to fall, millions of students began the new school year the same way they ended the last: physically separated from the teachers and staff who are crucial to their academic ...

Teaching special education online has its own unique challenges, but teachers have found ways to use educational technology to aid students. Special education instructors, like everyone else, turned ...

Students, parents and teachers across the country are all struggling to navigate school in the age of coronavirus. But for special education classrooms, including students with learning differences as ...

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Rebekah Rocha is at her Windsor home doing two — or three — things at once. She’s on the phone and answering the door, all while talking to her daughter, Gigi, who is in the bathroom. Gigi is nearly ...

Special education in California may face vast challenges — funding shortfalls, teacher shortages and distance learning, to name a few — but Heather Calomese is undeterred. Calomese, the state’s newly ...

Parenting a child with additional learning, attention, social-emotional, or behavioral needs has never been easy—and it’s not exactly getting easier. Distance learning and hybrid learning have created ...

Olivia Tan is regressing. She’s lost much of her curiosity, is unwilling to explore her home or flip through books as much as she used to — and her father feels helpless. The 6-year-old is deaf, blind ...

Rob Gorski is a single dad. He lives with his three autistic sons — Gavin, 20, Elliot, 14, and Emmett, 12 — in Canton, Ohio. Because Gavin is immunocompromised, the family has been on total lockdown ...

FAIRFAX, Va. — There was no in-person teaching on the first day of school in Fairfax County, but a Fairfax mom still brought her second grader to Providence Elementary on Tuesday. Eileen Chollet ...