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Let's not go back to 'normal'! lessons from COVID-19 for professionals working in childhood disability.

Peter L RosenbaumMindy SilvaChantal Camden
Published in: Disability and rehabilitation (2020)
The comments from participants support the currency of the ideas that were presented, and encourage childhood disability professionals to reflect on what we are learning, so that we can seize the opportunities they afford to do things differently-and we believe better-moving forward.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONIdeas generated by colleagues and parents suggest that there may be alternatives to "business as usual" in childhood disability services after the COVID pandemic is over.People are recognizing opportunities, and benefits, to offering services virtually, including being able to see children in their natural environments, saving parents time, money and hassles to attend clinics in person, and perhaps increasing the availability of services.Many issues remain to be investigated systematically, including, among others, what services (assessments and interventions) require hands-on connections, what payment structures can accommodate new models of services, how professionals can work together in a virtual world, and what families will want.Regardless of the final answers to these issues, we believe that we should not simply "go back to normal"; rather, we should expand the range, nature and locations of our services for children with developmental disabilities and their families.
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