Telerehabilitation and Wellbeing Experience in Children with Special Needs during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic represented a golden opportunity to implement telerehabilitation for clinical groups of children. The present study aims to show the impact that telerehabilitation had on the experience of well-being of children with special needs being treated at the F...
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| author | Daniela Sarti Marinella De Salvatore Emanuela Pagliano Elisa Granocchio Daniela Traficante Elisabetta Lombardi |
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| description | Social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic represented a golden opportunity to implement telerehabilitation for clinical groups of children. The present study aims to show the impact that telerehabilitation had on the experience of well-being of children with special needs being treated at the Foundation IRCCS Neurological Institute ‘C. Besta’ in Milan (Specific Learning Disorders and Cerebral Palsy diagnosis); it aims to do so by comparing it with experiences of those who did not undertake telerehabilitation despite the diagnosis during the pandemic, and with typically developing children. Results show that the three groups differed in the Support, Respect and Learning dimensions of well-being experience. Post hoc comparisons revealed that children with Specific Learning Disorders and Cerebral Palsy scored higher than normotypical children in Support and in Respect scales. Furthermore, children who experienced telerehabilitation showed the highest scores on the Learning scale in comparison with the other two groups. These results support the importance of reorganizing care and assistance by integrating telemedicine, which seems to have fostered a positive experience of well-being in people with special needs, particularly in the perception of a supportive environment that respects psychological needs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aa47c7c8e906467a9652a931539612782023-11-22T22:54:54ZengMDPI AGChildren2227-90672021-11-0181198810.3390/children8110988Telerehabilitation and Wellbeing Experience in Children with Special Needs during the COVID-19 PandemicDaniela Sarti0Marinella De Salvatore1Emanuela Pagliano2Elisa Granocchio3Daniela Traficante4Elisabetta Lombardi5Foundation IRCCS Neurological Institute ‘C. Besta’, 20133 Milan, ItalyFoundation IRCCS Neurological Institute ‘C. Besta’, 20133 Milan, ItalyFoundation IRCCS Neurological Institute ‘C. Besta’, 20133 Milan, ItalyFoundation IRCCS Neurological Institute ‘C. Besta’, 20133 Milan, ItalyDepartment of Psychology, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, 20123 Milan, ItalyDepartment of Psychology, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, 20123 Milan, ItalySocial distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic represented a golden opportunity to implement telerehabilitation for clinical groups of children. The present study aims to show the impact that telerehabilitation had on the experience of well-being of children with special needs being treated at the Foundation IRCCS Neurological Institute ‘C. Besta’ in Milan (Specific Learning Disorders and Cerebral Palsy diagnosis); it aims to do so by comparing it with experiences of those who did not undertake telerehabilitation despite the diagnosis during the pandemic, and with typically developing children. Results show that the three groups differed in the Support, Respect and Learning dimensions of well-being experience. Post hoc comparisons revealed that children with Specific Learning Disorders and Cerebral Palsy scored higher than normotypical children in Support and in Respect scales. Furthermore, children who experienced telerehabilitation showed the highest scores on the Learning scale in comparison with the other two groups. These results support the importance of reorganizing care and assistance by integrating telemedicine, which seems to have fostered a positive experience of well-being in people with special needs, particularly in the perception of a supportive environment that respects psychological needs.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/8/11/988telerehabilitationspecific learning disorderscerebral palsywell-being |
| spellingShingle | Daniela Sarti Marinella De Salvatore Emanuela Pagliano Elisa Granocchio Daniela Traficante Elisabetta Lombardi Telerehabilitation and Wellbeing Experience in Children with Special Needs during the COVID-19 Pandemic Children telerehabilitation specific learning disorders cerebral palsy well-being |
| title | Telerehabilitation and Wellbeing Experience in Children with Special Needs during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full | Telerehabilitation and Wellbeing Experience in Children with Special Needs during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Telerehabilitation and Wellbeing Experience in Children with Special Needs during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Telerehabilitation and Wellbeing Experience in Children with Special Needs during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_short | Telerehabilitation and Wellbeing Experience in Children with Special Needs during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_sort | telerehabilitation and wellbeing experience in children with special needs during the covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | telerehabilitation specific learning disorders cerebral palsy well-being |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/8/11/988 |
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