September 27, 2016
Engagement through Distance Learning: Improving the Lives of Homebound and Hospitalized Students
Abstract
The National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (2011-2012) reported that 80.4 percent of children age 6-17 are consistently engaged in school and that 9.1 percent of children age 6-17 have repeated at least one grade. These statistics include children at high risk for chronic physical health problems that prevent them from attending traditional brick and mortar schools. According to Beeman and Henderson (2012), multiple absences from the classroom (whether intermittent or continuous) negatively impact academic and social development. Florida maximizes the force of distance learning through virtual schools to educate both healthy children and children who are hospitalized or homebound. This presentation will showcase how distance learning can “virtually” reunite special health care needs children with their regular class at school, integrate them into existing virtual schools, can group them in “teleclasses” with other students with special health care needs, and/or enhance individual home schooling.
Engagement through Distance Learning: Improving the Lives of Homebound and Hospitalized Students
Capitol Ballroom
The National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (2011-2012) reported that 80.4 percent of children age 6-17 are consistently engaged in school and that 9.1 percent of children age 6-17 have repeated at least one grade. These statistics include children at high risk for chronic physical health problems that prevent them from attending traditional brick and mortar schools. According to Beeman and Henderson (2012), multiple absences from the classroom (whether intermittent or continuous) negatively impact academic and social development. Florida maximizes the force of distance learning through virtual schools to educate both healthy children and children who are hospitalized or homebound. This presentation will showcase how distance learning can “virtually” reunite special health care needs children with their regular class at school, integrate them into existing virtual schools, can group them in “teleclasses” with other students with special health care needs, and/or enhance individual home schooling.