Reports
For a world and detailed U.S. reports, please click on the picture.
Here is the link to an infographic created by Dr Ru Ying Cai of Aspect (Australia) on the basis of the Australian data.
Here is a link to an infographic created by Dr Jo Van Herwegen and Ms Hyelin Kye (both UCL) on the basis of the UK data.
Publications
Dukes, D., Van Herwegen, J., Alessandri, M., Alnemary, F. A.,
Amani Rad, J, Banta Lavenex, P., … Samson, A. C. (2021,
February 16). Introducing the COVID-19 crisis Special
Education Needs Coping
Survey.
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rtswa
Sideropoulos, V., Dukes, D., Hanley, M., Palinkara, O.,
Rhodes, S. Riby D., Samson, A. C., & Van Herwegen, J. (2021,
February 3). The impact of COVID-19 on anxiety and wellbeing
for families of individuals with Special Education Needs and
Disabilities in the UK.
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gyhd9
Di Poi, G., Dukes, D., Tran, M., Meuleman, B., & Samson,
A. C. (2021). Comment les familles d’enfants avec besoins
éducatifs particuliers ont vécu la crise de la COVID-19 :
Observations préliminaires pour la Suisse. [How families with
children with special educational needs experienced the
Covid-19 crisis: preliminary observations for
Switzerland]. Revue suisse de pédagogie spécialisée.
Samson, A. C., Di Poi, G., Tran, M., & Dukes, D. (2021). Die
Auswirkungen der COVID-19 Pandemie in der Schweiz: Erste
Beobachtungen bei Familien mit Kindern sonderpädagogischem
Förderbedarf [The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in
Switzerland: First observations in families with children with
special educational needs]. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für
Heilpädagogik.
Dukes, D., & Samson, A. C. (2021). COVID-19 : Donnons la
parole aux parents d’enfants avec des besoins éducatifs
particuliers [COVID-19: giving voice to the parents of
children with special educational needs]. Pages romandes :
Revue sur la pédagogie spécialisée les déficiences
intellectuelles et développementales.
Van Herwegen, J., Dukes, D., & Samson, A. (2020). COVID19
Crisis Response Survey for families of Individuals with
Special Needs [Data set]. OSFHOME. Retrieved May 27, 2020,
from osf.io/5nkq9
Van Herwegen, J., … Samson, A., & Dukes, D. (2020). Written
evidence submitted to the UK government on the impact of COVID-19 on
education and children’s services: The impact on families of
children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in
the UK. Retrieved July 23,
2020.
https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/8883/pdf/
Conference contributions
RY Cai., Dukes, D., Van Herwegen, J., Uljarević, M., &
Samson, A. C. (2020, December 10–11). Australian families of
children with neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric
conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An investigation of
parent and child COVID-19 anxiety levels and child preference
for sameness [Oral presentation]. Australasian Society for
Autism in Research, Wellington, New Zealand.
Samson, A. C., & Dukes, D. (2020, December 1). How did
families with special education needs deal with the COVID-19
pandemic: The situation in Switzerland [Oral presentation]
(First meeting of event on overview of studies about Covid-19
in education in Switzerland). EPFL and the Swiss Government
(online meeting).
Samson, A. C. (2020, November 28). The impact of the COVID-19
pandemic on individuals with special educational needs
[Invited Keynote]. The 9th Annual Meeting of the Japanese
Society of Developmental Neuroscience (JSDN) (online meeting).
Link
to video
Lenka Hrnčírová, (2020, September 17). A psychology day took
place in Olomouc, Czech Republic. We presented a poster with the main
information about the research project - its aims,
participating countries, initial results and recommended
procedures according to the short report prepared by Jo Van
Herwegen with a team of authors. The abstract is available at
the conference website (link) and the poster is available
below.
http://www.psychologickedny.info/p/blog-page_2.html
Samson, A. C. (2020, July 17). “The impact of COVID-19 on
children and young people across the globe” [Invited
talk]. The European Conference on Education & The European
Conference on Language Learning, ECE/ECLL2020, IAFOR
Conference, ICCE London, London, England (online
conference).
https://www.facebook.com/IAFORJAPAN/videos/287351039267802
Newspaper contributions
Dattaro, L. (2020, April 30). Autism researchers adapt studies
for a socially distant
world. Spectrum. https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/autism-researchers-adapt-studies-for-a-socially-distant-world/
Fasal, M. (2020, May 26). COVID-19: Familien mit besonderen
Bedürfnissen am Anschlag? [COVID-19: Families with special
needs on the attack?] Alma &
Georges.
https://www3.unifr.ch/alma-georges/articles/2020/covid-19-familien-mit-besonderen-beduerfnissen-am-anschlag?lang=de
Samson, A. C. (2020, September). Wie geht es Familien von
Kindern mit besonderen Bedürfnissenwährend der COVID-19
Pandemie? Eine internationale Studie [How are families of
children with special needs doing during the COVID-19
pandemic? An international study]. Wissenschaftlichen
Gesellschaft Autismus-Spektrum, 16, 10–14.