How Families with Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities were coping with the COVID-19 pandemic: An International Study

This study examined how people with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and their families across the world have been coping with the administrative, financial and social changes they likely experienced in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, we were interested in the stresses that they had faced and the coping and emotion regulation strategies they have employed. By Special Education Needs, we refer to people who need support with their condition which includes (but is not limited to) Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Down Syndrome, Intellectual Disability (not-otherwise specified), Williams Syndrome, and other rare genetic diseases.