School Issues and Educational Strategies for Survivors of Childhood Cancer

“From Snail Mode to Rocket Ship Mode”: Adolescents and Young Adults' Experiences of Returning to Work and School After Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

“…Pediatric care models commonly include school reintegration programs to minimize the effects of cancer-related breaks in education because of federal mandates to protect children with cancer. [42][43][44][45] Unfortunately, these programs do not typically extend beyond the K-12 setting, leaving AYAs who are in post-secondary programs without much needed resources.…”

Key Educational Factors in the education of students with a medical condition

“…Ireys () estimated that there are more than 200 different types of chronic illnesses that may affect school‐aged children (e.g., cancer, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, cystic fibrosis, chronic pain, sleep disorders, asthma, diabetes, haemophilia and HIV, and cardiac conditions. Billings, Moos, Miller and Gottlieb, ; Bouaddi et al, ; Colegrove and Huntzinger, ; Everhart, ; Fowler, Johnson, Welshimer, Atkinson and Loda, ; Getch, Bhukhanwala and Neuharth‐Pritchett, ; Gorodzinsky, Hainsworth and Weisman, ; Grieve et al, ; Kirkpatrick, ; McLoone, Wakefield, Butow, Fleming and Cohn, Moonie, Sterling, Figgs, and Castro, #5462). In addition to this plethora of illnesses, research on children with medical conditions covers three additional educational mediators and moderators: country specific culture (e.g., typical social network support, socioeconomic status, psychosocial environment) and support services (e.g., school psychologists, counsellors, and hospital teachers) (Barraclough and Machek, ; Fowler, Davenport and Garg, ; Harila‐Saari et al, ; St Leger, ), age (i.e., primary school and middle/high school aged children (Getch et al, ; Grieve et al, ; Grootenhuis and Last, ; Jackson, ; McLoone et al, ; Taylor, Gibson and Franck, ), and type of school service provided (i.e., home, hospital, mainstream schooling, school re‐entry.…”