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This blog was written by the Center for Translational Neuroscience at the University of Oregon | Transformative Neuroscience for Social Change. It was originally posted on Medium. Due to the pandemic, families with children who have special needs are…
Birendra Giri, a visually impaired student from Nepal, took his 12th-grade exam this month. The exams had been postponed for seven months due to COVID-19, and Birendra is worried he was not well-prepared. “I did not have any Braille books at home," he…
This blog was written by Tanushree Sarkar, a disabled woman and doctoral student in the Community Research and Action program at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. She has a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Psychology from the London School of…
Photo: Marie types braille notes while listening to the national education programme on radio. (Photo Credit: Idrissa Kanjay, Sightsavers) This blog was written by Eric Musa, Inclusive Education Project Officer, Sightsavers Sierra Leone, in…
Across the world, the number of children with disabilities is growing. Increased awareness regarding learning, as well as invisible disabilities such as learning disabilities, are changing the composition of our classrooms. Better screening and…
This blog was written by Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, Global Disability Advisor, World Bank and Anna Cristina D’Addio, Senior Policy Analyst at the GEM Report. It was originally published on the World Education Blog on 19 October 2020. The onset of the…
This blog was written by Guy Le Fanu, Global Technical Lead for Education at Sightsavers and was originally published on the Devex website on 28 July 2020. The world is experiencing one of the biggest disruptions in the history of education, with more…
Originally posted on Humanity&Inclusion Blog Today, UNESCO launched the 2020 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, specifically addressing inclusion in education. In line with the recommendations of this Report, HI calls on governments and…
This blog was written by Seema Nath, Doctoral Candidate and member of the Cambridge Network for Disability and Education Research (CaNDER), Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. It is part of a series from the REAL Centre reflecting on the…
This article was written by Unesco and originally posted on the Unesco website, on 04/06/2020. UNESCO joined its partners in the Global Action on Disability (GLAD) Network to raise awareness on the urgent need to put in place strategies and measures to…
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