Resources for Families of Students with Disabilities During COVID-19

COVID-19 and Special Education

View information for educators and parents to support students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Overview

This page provides access to resources for families and caregivers of children with disabilities, as they support their children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Helping your Student at Home

Behavior

• Creating a New Normal for Kids During the Uncertainties of COVID-19:  Includes information and resources for parents to maintain a sense of normalcy for their children during this time.  Created by the University of Texas Health and Science Center at Houston.
• Ten Positive Behavior Support Strategies to Support Families at Home provides parents with effective strategies and ideas for establishing routines, looking beyond the behavior, emphasizing your child’s strengths, and many more.
• Managing Problem Behavior at Home from Child Mind Institute 

General Resources

• Just for Kids:  A Comic Exploring the New Coronavirus
• Tips for Helping Your Child Learn at Home During the Coronavirus Outbreak: Created by a parent for parents and includes ideas for creating a learning space for your child with appropriate learning supplies and materials and an effective daily schedule.​
• Understood.org- Coronavirus: Latest Updates and Tips:  Resources for parents of children with disabilities.

Learning at Home

• A Parent’s Guide to Virtual Learning: 4 Actions to Improve Your Child’s Experience With Online Learning from the National Council for Learning Disabilities –Here are four things that you should know, and actions you can take, to guide your child’s journey through these unusual and unprecedented times.
• Family Guide to at-home Learning: This guide has practical strategies that work for helping children of all ages who may be struggling with an at-home learning task. Families may find these strategies useful when helping their children complete various reading, math, and/or behavioral tasks at home. Guide provided by the CEEDAR Center.
• National Education association- STEM Lessons in the Kitchen:  Includes simple activities in the kitchen that relate to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics for young children of all abilities.
• Tips for Helping Your Child Learn at Home During the Coronavirus Outbreak: Created by a parent for parents and includes ideas for creating a learning space for your child with appropriate learning supplies and materials and an effective daily schedule.
• Tips for Helping Your Child Learn at Home During the Coronavirus Outbreak: Created by a parent for parents and includes ideas for creating a learning space for your child with appropriate learning supplies and materials and an effective daily schedule.

Mental Health

• Anxiety and Coping with the Coronavirus from Child Mind Institute
• Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress- Helping Homebound Children During the COVID-19 Outbreak
• Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus- Parent Support Resources
• How Mindfulness Can Help During COVID-19 from Child Mind Institute