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Impact of lack of face-to-face schooling during COVID-19 confinement on family quality of life of children with disabilities and typical development.

Rocío Palomo CarriónRita-Pilar Romero-GalisteoHelena Romay BarreroMaría-Dolores Cortés-VegaMaría-Jesús Casuso-HolgadoElena Pinero-Pinto
Published in: Therapeutic advances in chronic disease (2022)
The deprivation of schooling coupled with home confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic had a greater impact on the quality of life of children with disabilities: infantile hemiplegia and obstetrical brachial palsy than on typically developing children and on their families. However, the online intervention did not produce improvements in quality of life, which could be a consequence of using emails or phone calls instead of video calls to interact with the families.
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