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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Part of learning to speak is seeing how your mouth moves. This is a basic fact. You may ask your pediatrician.[/quote]

No one is disputing this. The question is whether it's sufficient to see people move their mouth at home, after daycare, and on weekends, and how many kids are affected by this. Certainly, there would be many kids with speech problems in the absence of Covid masking rules, and even in the presence of these rules, there are kids who are verbally and socially advanced. It's not so straightforward.[/quote]
The more a child is deprived of learning opportunities with a trusted, stable caregiver (parents, teacher, etc), the more severe the consequences will be.[/quote]

Except that some kids are "advanced" despite this, and most posters commenting on commemts by speech therapists have described something like "an uptick." So it doesn't appear to be severe for all kids, but it also seems unclear imo what the scope is.[/quote]

I'm someone who is concerned about the impact of masks. My child is advanced verbally, but is struggling socially. If there is an impact (which I think there is, but nobody will ever have proof if it's masks or something else), it's certainly going to affect each child differently. Children are not widgets. They each have their own personalities, level of resilience and vulnerabilities, as well as home environments. For example, because my child was previously delayed in speech, we did early intervention and learned a lot of strategies to help with speech acquisition. Maybe that's helped her get more advanced. Or maybe she was always going to be advanced, but would be doing even better without masks. I'll never know.[/quote]

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