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COVID19 and Its Social

Impact on People with

and Best Practice
Disabilities: Challenges

David Evans PhD

Professor of Special and Inclusive
Education

Indonesian Conference on
Disability Studies and Inclusive
Education
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COVID19 and Context

8761/1,000,000 311/1,000,000 5.4/1,000,000

3427/1,000,000

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 Socio-Ecological Model of Disability
Kompetensi Pribadi TuntutanLingkungan
Mendukung
Personal Competency Environmental
The combination of Supports Demands The
strengths and Resources and expectations,
competencies that strategies that challenges and risks
each persons bridge the gap (i.e., associated with full
possesses: • Physical address the mismatch participationin the
between personal settings and activities of
Competency
competency and contemporary schools
• Conceptual Competency
environmental and modern society
• Practical Competency
• Social Competency demands)
• Emotional Competency

[Thompson et al., 2016, p. 32]

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Learning and Disability
✓ legislation
But ... ✓ policy
☓ … ✓ resources
☓ … ✓ teacher training

Context Capacity

Tuntutan
Demands Kompetensi
Competency

Mendukung
Support
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Learning and Disability

Context Capacity

Tuntutan
Demands Kompetensi
Competency

Mendukung
Support
What have we learned?
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– Students with disability are still not part of all (most then
some ≠ all)
– The move to COVID19
impacted education – but has
it all been ‘bad’ (lets see the
strengths)
– We need to learn more about
how education is really for
all.

https://www.economist.com/international/2020/03/19/how-covid-19-is-interrupting-childrens-education

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 Questions?

david.evans@dydney.edu.au

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