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At least 1 in 3 of the world's school children – 463 million children globally – were unable to access remote learning when COVID-19 shuttered their schools. [26] This raised concerns regarding the social, economic, and educational impacts of protracted school closures on students.
The disruptions they cause affect people across communities, but their impact is more severe for disadvantaged children and their families including interrupted learning, compromised nutrition, childcare problems and consequent economic cost to families who cannot work.
Sensory deprivation or perceptual isolation [1] is the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses. Simple devices such as blindfolds or hoods and earmuffs can cut off sight and hearing, while more complex devices can also cut off the sense of smell, touch, taste, thermoception (heat-sense), and the ability to know which way is down.
According to a report by the COVID Collaborative, a national pandemic coalition, between January 2020 and February 2022, 203,649 children under the age of 18 lost a caregiver to COVID-19. [ 28 ] Parent involvement is an important factor for student achievement in both traditional and online school settings.
A Connecticut doctor’s medical licenses were suspended after the state department of health found she was providing blank, signed COVID-19 vaccine and mask exemption forms to patients.
As of January 19, 2022, there were 599,028 confirmed cases, 68,202 suspected cases, and 9,683 COVID-associated deaths in the state. [ 1 ] As of January 17, 2022 [update] , 2,943,928 people (81.07% of the state's population) have received at least an initial dose of a COVID-19 vaccine , and 2,573,422 people (70.86% of the state's population ...
Dual sensory loss is the simultaneous loss of two senses. Research has shown that 6% of non-institutionalized older adults had a dual sensory impairment, and 70% of severely visually impaired older adults additionally suffered from significant hearing loss. [7] Vision and hearing loss both interfere with the interpretation and comprehension of ...
[14] [15] This term is preferred over "sensory deprivation" due to the fact that 1) the float tank experience actually enhanced sensory input from the body (e.g., cardiorespiratory sensations) and can also be conceptualized as a form of sensory enhancement [16] and 2) the term "sensory deprivation" carries negative connotations of torture and ...