A recent study from Central Michigan University has explored the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mothers with careers in higher education who have mental or physical disabilities.
Dr. Stacy Lim, a researcher and associate professor of audiology at CMU, says the pandemic led to an increase in disability-related symptoms. She says it is due to limited access to resources.
“With a pandemic going on,” she said, “I think it is very important to have some kind of support.”
Lim says - for example - there may be benefits in more accessible telehealth therapy. She says she hopes the findings lead to change in academic institutions.