Click here to listen to the show: Learning during the pandemic has been a unique challenge to every student. But remote learning can be close to impossible for some students with special needs. Many schools chose to bring special ed students back long before the rest of the school population. “To cut their day in half, or to put them learning remotely, when you are challenged with attention and regulation disorders or comprehension," said Sonntag, "that makes learning exponentially more challenging.” Last spring just as schools were shutting down, Sonntag talked to WNIJ about how they were using teletherapy and trying to make sure students had internet access. She also mentioned how for a lot of special ed students, technology is “more of a distraction than a learning tool” and that there’s really not a replacement for in-person services.