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 ...

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- The parents of Clovis Unified students with special needs learned on Thursday night what back to school will look like online. Staff is tasked with carrying over specialized ...

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 ...

This school year, parents in California who were worried about COVID-19 had only one alternative to in-person classes: enroll their child in “independent study” — a highly specialized program designed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Even the experts are struggling at teaching their kids from home during the coronavirus pandemic. Victoria Debenham and Dan Stapleton got married six years ago, and have a blended family of three kids ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many of these kids have autism like my son, and/or sensory issues, visual/physical/auditory disabilities, or a myriad of other ...

ST PAUL, Minn — Parents of children with severe special needs say they are caught in the middle of government red tape, unable to access the help their kids need to learn during the pandemic. As a ...

Many of these kids have autism like my son, and/or sensory issues, visual/physical/auditory disabilities, or a myriad of other issues that make it impossible for them to sit and look at a screen all ...