‘We Have Tried Various Applications…’
The Covid-19 health crisis has caused a number of problems in the education of special needs children. However, neither schools nor the children have given up.
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Irfan, who has hearing impairment, uses sign language during a 30-minute daily online class on Wednesday (26/8/2020) from his house in Larangan, Tangerang municipality, Banten. His disability has not dampened Irfan\'s enthusiasm for studying at the SLB Sumber Budi school for disabled children in South Jakarta.
The Covid-19 health crisis has caused a number of problems in the education of special needs children. However, neither schools nor the children have given up. They are trying any and all possible means to enable them to continue learning.
In early March 2020, acting principal Wawan and the teachers at SLB Negeri A Pajajaran special needs school in Bandung, West Java, were faced with a dilemma: they were obligated to change the school’s learning methods to prevent the spread of Covid-19 by switching from in-class learning to online learning.