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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It absolutely has to do with masking in infant rooms in daycare!  How could it not?  Our babies spent 8 hours a day not seeing mouths form words or expressions.

Yes, my toddler is being evaluated for speech delays.  I was told he’d be delayed and he is. [/quote]

+1.  Babies/toddlers imitate the people around them.  How can they imitate speech if they can't see someone's lips moving?[/quote]
Why isn’t every single baby currently in daycare delayed for speech then?[/quote]

This thread is literally going in circles. If the threshold for negative effects is that it has to negatively affect 100% of people, then by that logic we should never have cared about covid at all because the vast majority of people survive it. Right?[/quote]
Then you're saying that you don't know that masks definitively cause delays, right? In any case, are your babies in a masked caregiver setting 24/7?[/quote]

OP here. I tried to look around to see if there were any studies on this question enrolling. Regardless of how someone feels about caregiver masking and to what degree it affects speech development, surely this is research-worthy. [/quote]

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