| Parents of children with autism are opening up about their struggles during the coronavirus pandemic. Tobi Rates is the mother of 16-year-old Jake, a high school student in Portland. Rates said her son has autism and is non-verbal. Rates told KATU her son is not getting much out of distance learning and hasn’t since the start of the pandemic. “My son checks out really quickly on the video. He’ll wave a little bit. He is happy to see his teacher on video, he is happy to see the other students, but that’s about it,” Rates said. Jake’s mom said unless her son’s instructors are with him in person, it doesn’t help much. Then, teaching school becomes her responsibility. |
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