The Hill (2/17, Ali) reports “the coronavirus pandemic upended most students’ school routines across the country,” but research published in Frontiers in Education “shows that children with autism suffered greatly.” Investigators “surveyed parents of school-aged children, between the ages of 4-15-years-old, from May to August 2020,” and found that “overall, parents of children with autism were more than three times as likely to report negative changes in their child compared to parents of neurotypical children.” Specifically, parents “reported concerns related to their child’s hygiene, behavioral regression, therapy disruption, meltdowns and returning to school.”
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— “Autistic children three times more likely to report negative changes during pandemic, study says “Shirin Ali, The Hill, February 17, 2022