Learning Crisis (1) School Closure and Learning Crisis of Special Education by COVID-19
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school closure, COVID-19, soecial education
Abstract
COVID-19 pandemic caused a "Learning Crisis" for children with disabilities, which deprived them of their learning motivations and chances of keeping to learn. We surveyed special education schools in Japan in order to identify practical issues they had experienced during the school closures at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Yoshimi Matsuzaki, Toyo University
Yoshimi Matsuzaki, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Toyo University, specializing in medical sociology, emphasizing mental health and social inclusion. She has begun research for reasonable accommodation of reading accessibility (RARA), aiming to examine and consider better accommodation to learn and understand reading material deeper. Since 2020, she has engaged in the project, Research Inclusive Assistant (RIA), which focuses on assistant training to make inclusive accommodation for researchers with disabilities. Furthermore, she is in charge of the office in the Counter Learning Crisis Project, and she manages “Manakiki,” the website for students with disabilities.
Kuniomi Shibata, Tsuda University
Kuniomi Shibata, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Tsuda University
and specializes in assistive technology, especially focusing on
information technology for persons with disabilities. Currently, he is
in charge of support programs for students with disabilities and is
director of Inclusive Education Support Division. He also serves as
president of the Research Society of Learning Crisis and
representative of “Counter Learning Crisis Project” (Manakiki).