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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now she's pivoting to fearmongering. Masks will make your kids stupid! [/quote]

So the IQ study is questionable, but there are a lot of valid reasons why masks might be harmful to kids that are very difficult to study, and we will probably never have answers on. It's not fearmongering to say that children learn about emotions from looking at people's faces, and if they can't do that, they might not learn as well.[b] It's not fearmongering to state that one of the strategies for treating speech delays is to point to your mouth while overarticulating to help the child understand how to say words,[/b] which is more difficult even with a clear mask. At the same time, over the past two years there has been zero effort to understand exactly how helpful masks on young children are in a child care setting when the children take the masks off half the day despite there being clear reasons why masking young children might be harmful.[/quote]

Whether or not it's not fearmongering to say the bolded, it's a terrible practice, it's harmful.  Kids learn to talk by talking.  When we stop and correct articulation, outside of speech therapy, we discourage talking, they talk less and their skills grow more slowly.  
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I never said anyone was correcting articulation, JFC. At least what our SLP recommended was as a way of showing a young, non-verbal or barely verbal, toddler (18 months) how to say words. But I'll give her a call and tell her to stop recommending this since an anonymous person online decided it is bad.[/quote]

DP. Stop engaging these people. They obviously don’t have speech delayed kids nor have they ever done speech therapy with kids. They are weirdly getting off on requiring 2 year olds to mask. It’s sad, but not worth engaging. [/quote]

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