Life Impact of Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder during Pandemic Outbeak: Online Parenting Telerehabilitation Program

Abstract

 In response to Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID 19) outbreak, the Indian government issued an order on school closure to prevent and safeguard the children from the novel corona virus infection.There is no specified sample size, till the point of data saturation, we continued with the online parenting telerehabilitation programme using ZOOM app, GoToWebinar, Skype, Click Meeting, Webinato, Live storm, Webinars On Air. As the parenting programme began from March 2020 and we have conducted weekly 2 sessions and after 30 sessions of parenting programme the analysis was done. The findings indicate that it is feasible to implement online parenting telerehabilitation programme for children with developmental coordination disorder. 30 weeks programme was completed by 100% of participants who were enrolled at the baseline. Every parent requested to continue the programme until the eradication of COVID-19.This online parenting programme is free of cost and it was found to be beneficial for parents and children in rural villages confined at home. During COVID-19, further of the children with developmental disabilities are in uncertainty and every children is facing physical mental impacts of the COVID-19.