Posted on 02/19/2022 9:28:03 AM PST by DoodleBob
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly changed their standards for early childhood development, as the effects of pandemic policies on children’s development, from speech to reading to other basics, becomes increasingly more apparent.
Earlier this month, the CDC announced that new checklist ages for its important milestone lists were added. These new ages added were 15 and 30 months.
The update banner at the top of the page points those interested in the updates to the developmental milestones to a Pediatrics article outlining the research conducted that resulted in the change.
The CDC just quietly lowered the standards for speech in early childhood development.
Now children should know ~50 words at 30mo rather than 24mo.
Instead of highlighting the harmful effects ?s & lockdowns have had on children, the CDC just lowered the bar for milestones. pic.twitter.com/11QraOgFbJ— BowTiedRanger (@BowTiedRanger) February 18, 2022
One of the authors of this study, Jennifer M. Zubler, said that the changes were made to the guidelines ensure that it reflects milestones that at least 75 percent of children can reach. Since children are no longer able reach these previously attainable milestones, they have been lowered.
The abstract states: "Application of the criteria established by the AAP working group and adding milestones for the 15- and 30-month health supervision visits resulted in a 26.4 percent reduction and 40.9 percent replacement of previous CDC milestones. One third of the retained milestones were transferred to different ages; 67.7 percent of those transferred were moved to older ages."
Before, the milestone guidelines said that at 24 months, or two years of age, a child should be able to say more than 50 words. This milestone has been pushed back to 30 months.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Learn the Signs. Act Early. program, funded the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to convene an expert working group to revise its developmental surveillance checklists. The goals of the group were to identify evidence-informed milestones to include in CDC checklists, clarify when most children can be expected to reach a milestone (to discourage a wait-and-see approach), and support clinical judgment regarding screening between recommended ages. Subject matter experts identified by the AAP established 11 criteria for CDC milestone checklists, including using milestones most children (≥75%) would be expected to achieve by specific health supervision visit ages and those that are easily observed in natural settings. A database of normative data for individual milestones, common screening and evaluation tools, and published clinical opinion was created to inform revisions. Application of the criteria established by the AAP working group and adding milestones for the 15- and 30-month health supervision visits resulted in a 26.4% reduction and 40.9% replacement of previous CDC milestones. One third of the retained milestones were transferred to different ages; 67.7% of those transferred were moved to older ages. Approximately 80% of the final milestones had normative data from ≥1 sources. Social-emotional and cognitive milestones had the least normative data. These criteria and revised checklists can be used to support developmental surveillance, clinical judgment regarding additional developmental screening, and research in developmental surveillance processes. Gaps in developmental data were identified particularly for social-emotional and cognitive milestones.
DOXXING, not dozing!
The CDC just quietly lowered the standards for speech in early childhood development.
Now children should know ~50 words at 30mo rather than 24mo.
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because an ignorant and unquestioning child is a compliant future citizen.
Well, if some of those words are “Fauci is a lying piece of excrement” then I’d be ok with that.
So much evil.
How anyone can not see this as a graven political move to cover the forced masking.
Deep spiritual blindness.
No we are to believe the science of childhood development over the last 100 years was wrong and actually all those children who met the previous milestones were abnormal?
COVID rules are blamed for 23% dive in young children’s development: Disturbing study shows scores in three key cognitive tests slumped between 2018 and 2021, with face mask rules among possible culprits
Face masks and other social distancing measures may in fact impede on children’s development, a new study executed by Brown University has found
The probe analyzed the cognitive development of the youngsters through infancy, childhood and adolescence
In the study, researchers first analyzed 1,070 assessments administered on 605 kids prior to March 2020, when COVID lockdowns and masking began
A further 154 assessments from 118 kids administered between March 2020 and June 2021, during the height of the pandemic, were then carried out
Thirty-nine children born in 2018 and 2019 were analyzed over the course of the pandemic, into 2021.
The report found that there was a 23 per cent drop in scores measuring kids’ intelligence quotients since the start of the pandemic
The study also found similar dips in the same span in regards to developing children’s ability to communicate, both verbally and though subtle facial cues
But, but, BUT...
I thought that masks DIDN’T IMPAIR CHILD/SPEECH DEVELOPMENT???
/s
This
“According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “the limited available data indicate no clear evidence that masking impairs emotional or language development in children.”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-02-masks-classhow-child.html
vs. this
“If children’s “social and language development is a little bit slower, which it could be, balancing that with the risk of someone dying of the coronavirus – when all the evidence we have indicates that they will catch up and they will be OK – just doesn’t seem worth it to me,” said Amy Learmonth, a professor of psychology at William Paterson University in New Jersey.”
The OP outlines how tyrants view mea culpa.
“That’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong (because of their Y chromosomes), all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average (after renorming the standards).”
Because it’s harder for a toddler to learn to talk, or understand others talking, in a distant, nosebagged, world.
I had to stop watching video clips of Joe Biden because I could feel IQ points dribbling away from me every time I saw one. :-P
“When young children are learning the basics of being social beings, their parents and siblings can provide most of the input they need,” says Amy Learmonth, Ph.D., a developmental psychologist who runs the Cognition, Memory and Development Lab at William Paterson University in New Jersey and has studied children as young as eight weeks old. In fact, having parents and siblings home much of the time actually can be a boon for children age five and younger. Conversely, Learmonth says older children and adolescents develop social skills by learning to “navigate complex social groups of peers.” Prolonged isolation from peers could be stripping opportunities to naturally develop social skills, particularly the longer social distancing goes on.
The no accountability crowed at the CDC wants you to believe they have your best and most precious interests at stake. That supposedly justifies their rampant coercion and predation.
Covering for the covax damage that is, and will, occur
“Science” argument went out the door when politics trumped common sense.
The coming year will see a host of ‘shifting’ positions as CYA.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So these so-called children's standards established by the non-elected bureaucrats running the constitutionally undefined CDC are an unconstitutional expansion of the already unconstitutionally big federal government's powers imo.
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
This comes as no surprise, but is sad and maddening all at the same time.
As a homeschooler, I would hope that regardless of their new milestone dates, that MANY parents have EXCEEDED them.
Nice
They are, however, accepting Ebonics and Gangsta as language proficiency because, equity (and science).
The Left continues to sacrifice kids to achieve their goal of total control.
Do the Democrats think that there will be more “equity” by lowering the average IQ in the United States to that of Third World countries? If so, they are evil. In addition, kids with right thinking parents will just make more and more progress compared to those that acquiesce to the mask wearing etc.
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