Reply to Pandemic Babies and Speech

Forum Index » Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers

Reply to "Pandemic Babies and Speech"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s what the AAP says about masks and speech: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/COVID-19/Pages/Do-face-masks-interfere-with-language-development.aspx

Our toddler and preschooler have both learned two languages over the past two years, and because we are at high risk, we live like we’re in a monastery except for preschool, which is fully masked.

One of the challenges of this kind of discussion is that it’s really, really hard to control for confounding variables in human subject research and we tend to see our own experiences (and ignore anything that doesn’t conform to it). You have to be exceptionally well trained to avoid these obstacles when evaluating the effects of various policies and interventions.

If masks are contributing to speech delays, good evidence to that effect is not yet available. OTOH, we have very clear evidence that Covid can be quite dangerous. And masks and distancing are among our limited tools for dealing with it. Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad situation. [/quote]

It's a little disturbing that the AAP cites visually impaired children as proof that masks can't possibly impact development, when large percentages of blind children have developmental disabilities. They are making claims they can't possibly have the information to make.[/quote]

+1. And you can’t make the comparison between a child who sees nothing and I child you sometimes sees words mouthed and other times not.  Plus blind kids touch faces and mouths which our kids can’t.  AND blind children do have delayed speech in my experience.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics