CDC changes milestone on speech development for toddlers

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I am someone very concerned about masking young children. Setting aside the potential issues with social development, which are impossible to measure, masks make it harder to hear and understand each other. We don't need a study to know that any more than we need a study to know that the sky is blue. We also know that hearing issues often cause speech delays, that's why when you enter early Intervention one of the first things they recommend is a hearing test. I am continually stunned that the CDC, MoCo and so many preschools are so obsessed with masking with no concern for the potential harms.

That being said this move by the CDC has nothing to do with masking or saving money. It doesn't change who qualifies for early intervention. It gives parents and medical providers a more useful tool for December dung who needs to be referred for an assessment to determine if they qualify for services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am someone very concerned about masking young children. Setting aside the potential issues with social development, which are impossible to measure, masks make it harder to hear and understand each other. We don't need a study to know that any more than we need a study to know that the sky is blue. We also know that hearing issues often cause speech delays, that's why when you enter early Intervention one of the first things they recommend is a hearing test. I am continually stunned that the CDC, MoCo and so many preschools are so obsessed with masking with no concern for the potential harms.

That being said this move by the CDC has nothing to do with masking or saving money. It doesn't change who qualifies for early intervention. It gives parents and medical providers a more useful tool for December dung who needs to be referred for an assessment to determine if they qualify for services.

Lol that should be "determining"

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Anonymous wrote:Even if you think that mask wearing causes speech delays, wearing masks beginning at age 2 wouldn't impact a 24 month milestone.

It's not the kids themselves. It's that all adults around them are masked and they cannot watch faces to learn to talk. Think about it.

Their parents shouldn’t be masked.

Here we go again. Let's do the math. 8 hour workday + hour lunch + hour commute each way = 11 hours in childcare daily. 12 hours of sleep. Equals as little as one hour a day with parents on work days.

Who puts their infants and young toddlers in daycare for 11 hours?? I would imagine anyone who possibly can tries to stagger hours with their spouse. Plus, you forgot about weekends. Unless the parents are on their phones all weekend and stick their kids on tablets. I actually think that’s the true culprit of societal increase in speech delays - phones and tablets.

Single moms who have crappy jobs and can't afford a car so they have to be on transit, i.e. the kids who were most at risk of falling behind to begin with.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if you think that mask wearing causes speech delays, wearing masks beginning at age 2 wouldn't impact a 24 month milestone.

It's not the kids themselves. It's that all adults around them are masked and they cannot watch faces to learn to talk. Think about it.

Their parents shouldn’t be masked.

Here we go again. Let's do the math. 8 hour workday + hour lunch + hour commute each way = 11 hours in childcare daily. 12 hours of sleep. Equals as little as one hour a day with parents on work days.

You sound like crummy parents. Time for a new job.

I am a stay at home mom. We are doing sign language for kicks. This is not my kids. But nice grasping at straws!

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with the CDC. One of my children was developmentally delayed and needed intense speech therapy, the other took her time but caught up without special support.

I agree too. We started st very young and it was not helpful till starting at 2:5 to 3 and too many years to catch up.

Yep, a delay doesn't always mean there's a problem to be resolved with support. Many kids catch up on their own. But, by weeding out the kids who will catch up with a wait and see approach, it should free up resources and reduce wait times for kids who need it.

I didn't realize these resources were so precious they need to be horded like gold.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with the CDC. One of my children was developmentally delayed and needed intense speech therapy, the other took her time but caught up without special support.

I agree too. We started st very young and it was not helpful till starting at 2:5 to 3 and too many years to catch up.

Yep, a delay doesn't always mean there's a problem to be resolved with support. Many kids catch up on their own. But, by weeding out the kids who will catch up with a wait and see approach, it should free up resources and reduce wait times for kids who need it.

I didn't realize these resources were so precious they need to be horded like gold.

Take a short trip over to the special needs board. Recourses are indeed limited.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if you think that mask wearing causes speech delays, wearing masks beginning at age 2 wouldn't impact a 24 month milestone.

It's not the kids themselves. It's that all adults around them are masked and they cannot watch faces to learn to talk. Think about it.

Their parents shouldn’t be masked.

Here we go again. Let's do the math. 8 hour workday + hour lunch + hour commute each way = 11 hours in childcare daily. 12 hours of sleep. Equals as little as one hour a day with parents on work days.

You sound like crummy parents. Time for a new job.

I am a stay at home mom. We are doing sign language for kicks. This is not my kids. But nice grasping at straws!

No wonder you’re clueless! You think all working parents plop their kids in daycare for 11 hours, and that is how you justify being a housewife!

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t make the connection between this and COVID at all. The CDC milestones have always been too far ahead for half of babies. For it to be a milestone, at least 80-90% of babies should be able to do it and my ped told me at least half or more of her patients would come in and worry about CDC milestones in the past. Not everything is about masking and Covid.

+1 and I actually don't like masking kids under 6 so I'm not defending masking young kids.

Way too many kids wind up in speech therapy at age 2 than is necessary. Pediatricians have been stuck in a catch-22 with the CDC guidance because they they basically have to offer or inform parents about resources for speech therapy if kids don't meet the cut offs, even though peds know the vast majority of these kids will catch up very soon and that it's very normal for kids to get that burst of language acquisition at 20 months or 23 months or 25 months or 28 months. Like all are normal and not delayed, but the CDC guidelines make parents think their kid is delayed simply because they are on the tail end of normal.

And it's a problem because it causes a shortage of pediatric speech therapists and children who really, really need these services may struggle to get them.

It would be like every child who wasn't walking by 13 months went to physical therapy. Raise your hadn't if you kid walked after 13 months and has never had a single issue with gross motor development. (Me)

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t make the connection between this and COVID at all. The CDC milestones have always been too far ahead for half of babies. For it to be a milestone, at least 80-90% of babies should be able to do it and my ped told me at least half or more of her patients would come in and worry about CDC milestones in the past. Not everything is about masking and Covid.

+1 and I actually don't like masking kids under 6 so I'm not defending masking young kids.

Way too many kids wind up in speech therapy at age 2 than is necessary. Pediatricians have been stuck in a catch-22 with the CDC guidance because they they basically have to offer or inform parents about resources for speech therapy if kids don't meet the cut offs, even though peds know the vast majority of these kids will catch up very soon and that it's very normal for kids to get that burst of language acquisition at 20 months or 23 months or 25 months or 28 months. Like all are normal and not delayed, but the CDC guidelines make parents think their kid is delayed simply because they are on the tail end of normal.

And it's a problem because it causes a shortage of pediatric speech therapists and children who really, really need these services may struggle to get them.

It would be like every child who wasn't walking by 13 months went to physical therapy. Raise your hadn't if you kid walked after 13 months and has never had a single issue with gross motor development. (Me)

Have you spoken to a speech therapist? Many of them are very upset by these new guidelines. They do not think it helps children at all.