How Does COVID-19 impact Students with Disabilities/Health Concerns?
| Autor: | Zhang, Han, Nurius, Paula, Sefidgar, Yasaman, Morris, Margaret, Balasubramanian, Sreenithi, Brown, Jennifer, Dey, Anind K., Kuehn, Kevin, Riskin, Eve, Xu, Xuhai, Mankoff, Jen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | The impact of COVID-19 on students has been enormous, with an increase in worries about fiscal and physical health, a rapid shift to online learning, and increased isolation. In addition to these changes, students with disabilities/health concerns may face accessibility problems with online learning or communication tools, and their stress may be compounded by additional risks such as financial stress or pre-existing conditions. To our knowledge, no one has looked specifically at the impact of COVID-19 on students with disabilities/health concerns. In this paper, we present data from a survey of 147 students with and without disabilities collected in late March to early April of 2020 to assess the impact of COVID-19 on these students' education and mental health. Our findings show that students with disabilities/health concerns were more concerned about classes going online than their peers without disabilities. In addition, students with disabilities/health concerns also reported that they have experienced more COVID-19 related adversities compared to their peers without disabilities/health concerns. We argue that students with disabilities/health concerns in higher education need confidence in the accessibility of the online learning tools that are becoming increasingly prevalent in higher education not only because of COVID-19 but also more generally. In addition, educational technologies will be more accessible if they consider the learning context, and are designed to provide a supportive, calm, and connecting learning environment. Comment: 15 pages |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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