"It just fits my needs better": Autistic students and parents' experiences of learning from home during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruption to people's lives, especially for families, whose children have been taken out of schools during lockdown restrictions and required to learn from home. Little is known, however, about the perceived impact of the lockdown restrictions on the educational experiences of autistic children and young people - a group whose conventional schooling experiences are already often challenging. In this study, we sought to (1) understand these experiences from the perspectives of autistic young people and their parents, and (2) identify the underlying sources of positive experiences at this challenging time, in order to inform the ways in which autistic children might flourish at school in more normal times.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Heyworth M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9620701 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature