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Azalea Corral has a family photo that shows her three younger siblings and parents smiling together against a Santa Barbara countryside backdrop. It was taken on February 8, 2020 — the last time they would pose together for a photos. The following day, both her parents succumbed to bodily injuries after a drunk driver struck them while they were out on their usual evening stroll in Goleta, a community about 12 miles west of Santa Barbara. Corral’s siblings were in the house; she was on a train back to Riverside.
Families of children with autism often must navigate an ocean of contradictory or hard to access information and services to get the support they need to help their children thrive.
[General education teachers make time to find student’s interests, celebrate their talents, and have one-on-one time to form stronger relationships with students with autism, finds a UC Riverside-led study.]
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Highlander Negative Remote – Courtesy of Pexels A team of researchers at UCR have been awarded a grant by the National Institutes of Health and UCR’s Center for Health Disparities Research for their study, titled Parent Experiences of Remote Learning. This study is centered around the experiences of families with parents and school-aged children within the Inland Empire. Jan Blacher, distinguished research professor in UCR’s Graduate School of Education, director of the SEARCH Family Autism Resource Center and one of the project leaders, spoke to The Highlander about the importance of this particular research endeavor. She explained that though the negative impacts of school closures have likely been felt by all families, the effects may be much more far reaching among vulnerable populations, especially among young children who are dependent upon their caregivers, children with special education needs who have had their support services reduced and racial minority children. “For the richly diverse communities of the Inland Empire, pre-existing socioeconomic and health disparities likely exacerbated the consequences of school closures,” Blacher explained.