Summer lessons can help kids with learning difficulties catch up after pandemic Students with learning disabilities had to weather the COVID-19 pandemic: what’s next now, asks LAURA CALLEJA? 14 May 2021, 7:27am by Laura Calleja Children with learning challenges face a daunting future as the slowdown in COVID infections now raises the question of how they will recuperate once the pandemic was over. “As it is, without COVID-19 we already have children falling between the cracks, and that is a worry,” Malta Dyslexia Association (MDA) secretary Dr Ruth Falzon told MaltaToday. COVID-19 had a profound impact on people’s health but also how they learn, work, and live.