Abstract

The pandemic COVID-19 is one whose impact is unparalleled in history. Although advances in technology have helped in containment, the pandemic spread still poses a strong challenge. This has resulted in countries of the world gathering resources, both intellectual and financial, to combat a common enemy. The global pandemic affected a lot of persons and the way they do things. One of the sets of persons affected by this pandemic are people living with disabilities. It is in the light of this that this paper appraised the effect of Covid-19 lockdown on the communicative patterns of physically challenged people. The health belief model and the participatory communication theory were adopted as the most suitable theoretical frameworks for this paper.

Keywords

Appraising, Covid-19 Lockdown Effect, Physically-Challenged People, Communication Patterns.