Impacts of health-related school closures on child protection outcomes: A review of evidence from past pandemics and epidemics and lessons learned for COVID-19

. 2021 May 9;84:102431. doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102431

Back to school campaigns for children with disabilities
In Madagascar, the Inclusive Education Platform Committee organized a workshop on the specific needs of students with disabilities during COVID-19 school closures to strengthen the messaging to foster their reintegration in the next catch-up class campaign and to advocate for the continued sign-language translation of televised educational programming. Similarly, Kenya and Laos are organizing back-to-school campaigns to address the needs and concerns of children with disabilities. In Malaysia, UNICEF in collaboration with the National Early Childhood Intervention Council, provided online and teleservices to children and adolescents with disabilities, significantly increasing access to this support despite COVID-19 containment measures that have limited movement and in-person contact (UNICEF, 2020f).

Back to school campaigns for children with disabilities

In Madagascar, the Inclusive Education Platform Committee organized a workshop on the specific needs of students with disabilities during COVID-19 school closures to strengthen the messaging to foster their reintegration in the next catch-up class campaign and to advocate for the continued sign-language translation of televised educational programming. Similarly, Kenya and Laos are organizing back-to-school campaigns to address the needs and concerns of children with disabilities. In Malaysia, UNICEF in collaboration with the National Early Childhood Intervention Council, provided online and teleservices to children and adolescents with disabilities, significantly increasing access to this support despite COVID-19 containment measures that have limited movement and in-person contact (UNICEF, 2020f).