The COVID-19 pandemic unexpectedly changed almost all aspects of people’s everyday lives. This included new challenges in the education of Native American students with disabilities who live in rural and remote areas of the United States. Native American students with disabilities living on reservations are served by local schools, tribally controlled schools, and Bureau of Indian Education schools under the provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. In rural reservation communities during COVID-19, special education services for students with disabilities were significantly disrupted. Contributing factors were high rates of poverty, lack of adequate funding and staffing for health care, populations with higher rates of chronic illness, high percentages of homes with no running water or electricity, shortages of certified special educators, and barriers to alternative forms of education due to lack of access to high-speed internet and technology.

COVID-19大流行意外地改变了人们日常生活的几乎所有方面。这包括生活在美国农村和偏远地区的美国原住民残疾学生教育方面的新挑战。根据《残障人士教育法》的规定，居住在预定地上的美国原住民残疾学生由当地学校，受部落控制的学校和印度教育局提供服务。在COVID-19期间的农村保留社区中，为残疾学生提供的特殊教育服务受到了严重破坏。造成这种情况的因素有：贫困率高，缺乏足够的资金和卫生保健人员，慢性病发病率高的人群，没有自来水或电力的房屋比例高，