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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn’t make the connection between this and COVID at all. The CDC milestones have always been too far ahead for half of babies. For it to be a milestone, at least 80-90% of babies should be able to do it and my ped told me at least half or more of her patients would come in and worry about CDC milestones in the past. Not everything is about masking and Covid. [/quote]

+1 and I actually don't like masking kids under 6 so I'm not defending masking young kids.

Way too many kids wind up in speech therapy at age 2 than is necessary. Pediatricians have been stuck in a catch-22 with the CDC guidance because they they basically have to offer or inform parents about resources for speech therapy if kids don't meet the cut offs, even though peds know the vast majority of these kids will catch up very soon and that it's very normal for kids to get that burst of language acquisition at 20 months or 23 months or 25 months or 28 months. Like all are normal and not delayed, but the CDC guidelines make parents think their kid is delayed simply because they are on the tail end of normal.

And it's a problem because it causes a shortage of pediatric speech therapists and children who really, really need these services may struggle to get them.

It would be like every child who wasn't walking by 13 months went to physical therapy. Raise your hadn't if you kid walked after 13 months and has never had a single issue with gross motor development. (Me)[/quote]

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