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Family Focus Resource Center in the News

August 21, 2020

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We have been featured in several recent news stories. 

Hal Eisner with Fox 11 News in Los Angeles interviewed our Director and Principal Investigator, Ivor Weiner, in this story about the difficulties many families who have children with disabilities are facing with distance learning.

https://www.foxla.com/news/parents-describe-difficulties-of-teaching-disabled-kids-during-the-pandemic

Next, Hal Eisner interviewed Family Focus Resource Center staff member Josefina Romo de Sharp about the difficulties Spanish speaking families are facing, as well as her personal COVID-19 story.

https://www.foxla.com/news/teen-with-autism-and-his-mom-struggle-with-distance-learning-covid-19

Theresa Quary, Coordinator of our Chatsworth office, was interviewed in this article in the Los Angeles Times on how to adapt remote learning to students with disabilities.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-14/how-to-adapt-special-education-to-the-remote-learning-reality