Around 60% of the parents of children with disabilities said that their children study at home because schools cannot provide special conditions for their full-time education in Russia, according to the ROOI “Perspective” report.
The organization surveyed parents and analyzed the appeals received on its hotline. 27.7% of parents said that the real reason for switching to home education was a serious or long-term illness of the child, which prevents them from attending school.
According to the organization, more than half of homeschooled children have intellectual disabilities (55.3%), and 33% of children have musculoskeletal disorders. 40% of these children study in special schools, the remaining 60% in general education.
Most children with disabilities who are homeschooled are individually trained with educators. 28.6% of parents indicated that their children study individually with teachers at home and school. 11.6% of children attend both individual lessons and general lessons at school with other students.
“The quality of education can also be significantly reduced when the child is homeschooled. Many parents workload of their children, when schooled at home, is much lower than their peers,” the authors of the report added.
