School Closures Particularly Hard on Children with Disabilities

Click to expand Image A teacher and a child match squares at Balama Center, an organization that offers support to children with autism in Almaty, Kazakhstan. © 2018 Timur Karpov On May 28, 2020, Human Rights Watch launched a survey to learn more about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on students, parents and caregivers. As of June 6, people in 54 countries had completed the survey; it’s still open here—please fill it out! The following dispatches highlight some of the themes that have come through most strongly, and we’ll keep adding to this page. The survey is helping us identify…

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