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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to stress OP, that you need to make mask wearing a priority with therapy and at home. A few seconds to a few minutes to 10 minutes - work your way up. It will be horrible to have your child who does not tolerate a mask end up needing to be intubated or have a nasal canula for O2 sat or anything else if he or she develops breathing complications. Many of the therapists and specialists I work with are pushing that hard with their patients, many of those who have sensory disorders or ASD, because they know that entrance into school and also just in case their is a medical need, being able to wear a mask is so important.

Please make this something you work on hard core at home. It might save your child's life. [/quote]

Some of these posts are rather hystrionic. If you've been following COVID at all, you should know the risk to young children is quite low. I'm trying to be respectful of the fact that the risk to adults- and the elderly in particular- is not low.

And yes, we have working with therapists on masks.  There's no "working up" to anything, though. He just takes it off- immediately.  And you can't exactly reason with a mostly non-verbal 3 year old. Clearly you have limited experience with anything besides neurotypical kids, so please try to recognize the very real possibility that you don't know what you're talking about.

There's a reason WHO specifically recommends against mask mandates for kids under 5. Some kids simply are not developmentally able to wear a mask- particularly at these young ages.[/quote]

The WHO? Hahahahaha.

You could go to VA to do your errand there as they are more lax about mask wearing in general and don't require for the younger kids like MoCo does.[/quote]

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