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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is just so wrong! I absolutely believe it has to do with masking. It is one of the reasons that in Europe and many Asian countries they said NO masking kids under 5. I believe in masking and vaccines, but not for toddlers!

My son was language delayed and I remember looking at the percentile rank of kids who know 50 words by 24 months. It is NOT the 50th percentile rank. Around 90 percent of toddlers know 50 words by 24 months. This is written by a speech therapist:

Approximate Words in Expressive Vocabulary in Typically Developing Toddlers

By 12 months a child says 2-6 words other than  Mama or Dada?

By 15 months a child says 10 different words.

At 18 months toddlers with typically developing language use 50 different words.

At 24 months a child with typically developing language says 200-300 words.

By 30 months a toddler says 450 words.

At 36 months a child with typically developing language uses 1,000 different words.

**LinguiSystems Guide to Communication Milestones cites sources as Child Development Institute at www.childdevelopmentinfo.com. Nicolosi, Harryman, Kresheck (2006). Owens (1996).

Contrast this information with milestones used in common speech-language assessments for infants and toddlers.

Most assessment tools include the skill, “Child says 50 words by 24 months.”

What’s the discrepancy here?

Even those of us who aren’t great with math can see that a child who is using 50 words by 24 months lags behind his or her typically developing peers who are using 200 to 300 words.

Remember that the milestones on speech-language tests are based on when 90% of all children have mastered the skill.

[b]This means the majority of toddlers, usually 90%, are using 50 different words by 24 months.[/b]
It does not mean that a toddler with “average” skills says 50 words by 24 months.[/quote]

Right, and now they are pushing it to 30 months to hide some of the damage done to this age cohort in the last two years, when they literally have not been able to watch others talk and properly develop their own speech habits. It's disgraceful.[/quote]

It's not just masking. Everything is closed. People are in hermit mode. [b]Some strange adult or older kid is going to make you work harder to be understood [/b]than your parents who understand your baby speech nonsense, and you will have to work harder to understand them. My 20 month old daughter gets 60% of her speech modelling from me, 25% from her four year old brother, 14% from dad, 1% from strangers and screens. [/quote]

What study do you have to support this?[/quote]

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