"Remote learning" a challenge for people with a disability

Jacinta and Marie Anne Rome

Jacinta and Marie Anne Rome Source: Supplied

Working as a doctor and helping her daughter who has a disability coping with remote learning has been very tricky for Mary Anne Rome.


Mary Anne Rome is a doctor with three children. Jacinta is 22 and was diagnosed with Rett syndrome when she was a child, resulting in problems with her movements and language.

Her experience with remote learning during the six weeks away from school has been challenging, as Mary Anne tells SBS Italian.

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