COVID-19-Induced Academic Disability: Furthering the Case of Disability by Induction

Autor/in	Hutchison, Charles B.
Titel	COVID-19-Induced Academic Disability: Furthering the Case of Disability by Induction
Quelle	In: Insights into Learning Disabilities, 18 (2021) 2, S.103-108 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1949-1212
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; COVID-19; Pandemics; Students with Disabilities; Educational Environment; Special Education; Social Influences; Equal Education; Disproportionate Representation; Social Justice; Ethics; Racial Bias; African Americans; Minority Group Students; Learning Disabilities + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Student; Students; Disability; Disabilities; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Behinderung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Sozialer Einfluss; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Ethik; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Afroamerikaner; Learning handicap; Lernbehinderung
Abstract	Potentially all over the world, there are children who have been improperly diagnosed with various forms of learning disabilities, with potentially life-long consequences. The primary aim of this essay is to stimulate readers to consider the fact that, in a natural classroom environment, average, academically functional students who are perceptively successful can easily become destabilized by shifting one of several variables in their learning environments. COVID-19 was one of such variables. In that sense, COVID-19 helped expose that the threshold for triggering the classification of average students into special education is lower than generally perceived. In social environments that are replete with social inequities, it is necessary to expand the considerations for alleviating the ongoing disproportionality in special education, because it "strongly indicates systemic problems of inequity, prejudice, and marginalization within the education system" (Sullivan, 2011). (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Learning Disabilities Worldwide, Inc. 14 Nason Street, Maynard, MA 01754. Tel: 978-897-5399; Fax: 978-897-5355; e-mail: info@ldworldwide.org; Web site: http://www.ldworldwide.org/educators/ild-educators
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01