Posted on 01/29/2022 6:41:22 AM PST by grundle
A speech therapist says that mask wearing during the pandemic has caused a 364% increase in patient referrals of babies and toddlers.
Jaclyn Theek told WPBF News that before the pandemic, only 5 per cent of patients were babies and toddlers, but this has soared to 20 per cent.
Parents are describing their children’s speech problems as “COVID delayed,” with face coverings the primary cause of their speaking skills being seriously impaired.
As young as 8 months old, babies start learning how to speak by reading lips, a thankless task if parents and carers smother themselves with masks to comply with mandates.
“It’s very important kids do see your face to learn, so they’re watching your mouth,” said Theek.
The news report featured one such mother, Briana Gay, who is raising five children but having speech problems with her youngest.
“It definitely makes a difference when the world you’re growing up in you can’t interact with people and their face, that’s super important to babies,” said Gay.
According to Theek, since the pandemic, autism symptoms are also skyrocketing.
“They’re not making any word attempts and not communicating at all with their family,” she said.
As we previously highlighted, Forbes deleted an article written by an education expert who asserted that forcing schoolchildren to wear face masks was causing psychological trauma.
A study by researchers at Brown University found that mean IQ scores of young children born during the pandemic have tumbled by as much as 22 points while verbal, motor and cognitive performance have all suffered as a result of lockdown.
Michael Curzon noted that two of the primary causes for this are face masks and children being atomized as a result of being kept away from other children.
“Children born over the past year of lockdowns – at a time when the Government has prevented babies from seeing elderly relatives and other extended family members, from socialising at parks or with the children of their parent’s friends, and from studying the expressions on the faces behind the masks of locals in indoor public spaces – have significantly reduced verbal, motor and overall cognitive performance compared to children born before, according to a new U.S. study. Tests on early learning, verbal development and non-verbal development all produced results that were far behind those from the years preceding the lockdowns,” he wrote.
Perhaps all the virtue signalers who think of themselves as such morally upstanding people for wearing masks will change their behavior given they are literally contributing to causing major cognitive problems in children.
Or maybe they simply won’t care, given that the mask is now a political status symbol above anything else.
Child abuse... While using propaganda... Period!
Given that brain development requires meeting certain milestones as it matures, some of these kids may never recover.
Rewiring a damaged brain is an intensive process.
The longer govt officials force masking, the longer it will take to even start.
Some will continue with the masks regardless of damage done. Remember, these are the same people who support abortion.
Don’t worry! Governor Hochul assures that “they’re more adaptable. When my daughter went to school , she didn’t want to wear shoes. She adapted.” See? ( this is the gravitas of the left)
Thank you for sharing this very important article.
Kids build up all kinds of skills, knowledge and feelings about the world and people around them at a very rapid pace in that first year. Inhibiting that growth is bound to retard their development.
This insane obsession with controlling children (and people in general) is literally causing untold harm in our society.
Well said.
Pls see my #6.
The left has a particular interest in retarding the intelligence of the general population. Maybe this is a feature, not a bug.
“..a 364% increase in patient referrals..”
And all the speech therapists go - CHA-CHING!!!!
..then donate large contributions back to their favorite fascist politicians..
CNY parents react to Governor Hochul's plan to extend mask mandate
Meanwhile...
Mental health-related hospitalizations rising in Central New York, especially among kids
BTW, it's not a mandate, is it...
The New York Mask-Mandate Mess
Want this crap to end?
Stop complying.
60 years of liberals pushing Head Start education policy and now they are throwing it all away by willfully depriving all children of early education and socialization skills
And forcing it on America's children is not just abusive, it's inhumane to harm a child physically and mentally this way just because an adult is addicted to a dirty, nasty, unhealthy, -- not to add completely useless (both from a medical science and a physical science perspective) bad habit.
Is this consistent with Islamic countries putting their women in hefty bags? It’s a fact that Islamic countries IQ is on on the low side. Interesting?
Stop studying and sue. These problems were known to exist, yet they forced kids to wear the masks and suffer as a result
It is well past time for the government to deposit all the masks, jabs, and swabs on Fauci’s front yard.
It’s the covid, it turned a bunch of kids autistic!
Its like children country wide all simultaneously developed a southern drawl
Because most learning is imitative. Can’t see someone else talking can’t copy. Child development experts, pediatricians and educators should have seen this one coming.
yep, on purpose.
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