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report experiencing negative mental- and physical health outcomes than children who received in -person instruction.150 Treasury Response: Under the final rule, addressing the impact of lost instructional time and/or learning loss is an enumerated eligible use for impacted households. When providing services to address lost instructional time, recipients may presume that any K-12 student who lost access to in -person instruction for a significant period of time has been impacted by the pandemic and is thus eligible for responsive services. Interventions or services that address the impact of lost instructional time may include offering high -quality tutoring and other extended learning opportunities, providing differentiated instruction, implementing activities to meet the comprehensive needs of students, expanding and improving language access for parents and families, providing information and assistance to parents and families on how they can effectively support students, including in a distance learning environment, improving student engagement in distance education, and administering and using high -quality assessments to assess students' academic progress, among others. In designing services under this eligible use, recipients may wish to reference guidance from the Department of Education on strategies for addressing lost instructional time.151 The final rule also maintains a separate enumerated eligible use for addressing educational disparities in disproportionately impacted communities. This eligible use includes services to address disparities in educational outcomes that predate the pandemic and amplified its impact on underserved students; these include, for example, enhanced funding to high -poverty 15° Verlenden JV, Pampati S, Rasberry CN, et al. Association of Children's Mode of School Instruction with Child and Parent Experiences and Well -Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic COVID Experiences Survey, United States, October 8—November 13, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021;70:369-376. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7011alexternal icon. 151 U.S. Department of Education, Strategies for Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Address the Impact of Lost Instructional Time, August 2021. Retrieved from https://www2.ed.gov/documents/coronavirus/lost- instructional-time.pdf. 101