Posted on 08/13/2021 7:24:12 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Children born during the coronavirus pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor and overall cognitive performance compared with children born before, a US study suggests.
The first few years of a child’s life are critical to their cognitive development. But with Covid-19 triggering the closure of businesses, nurseries, schools and playgrounds, life for infants changed considerably, with parents stressed and stretched as they tried to balance work and childcare.
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With limited stimulation at home and less interaction with the world outside, pandemic-era children appear to have scored shockingly low on tests designed to assess cognitive development, said lead study author Sean Deoni, associate professor of paediatrics (research) at Brown University.
In the decade preceding the pandemic, the mean IQ score on standardised tests for children aged between three months and three years of age hovered around 100, but for children born during the pandemic that number tumbled to 78, according to the analysis, which is yet to be peer-reviewed.
“It’s not subtle by any stretch,” said Deoni. “You don’t typically see things like that, outside of major cognitive disorders.”
The study included 672 children from the state of Rhode Island. Of these, 188 were born after July 2020 and 308 were born prior to January 2019, while 176 were born between January 2019 and March 2020. The children included in the study were born full-term, had no developmental disabilities and were mostly white.
Those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds fared worse in the tests, the researchers found.
The biggest reason behind the falling scores is likely the lack of stimulation and interaction at home, said Deoni. “Parents are stressed and frazzled … that interaction the child would normally get has decreased substantially.”
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The researcher shows a baby a photograph of a person. Then the baby is shown both the picture again alongside the picture of another person. How long does the baby stare at the original picture (i.e. recognition) compared to the new one.
So the pandemic resulted in a plague of Democrats?
Lol… I have to be much quicker in this group.
The oldest child born during the pandemic would be about 17 months old. Many are less than one year. Too young to do more than babble. I would not be surprised to find that these kids are behind the curve. It just seems a bit premature to draw hard conclusions and the term “IQ” seems a bit much to describe what you’ve mentioned.
Covid is racist!!!
After July 2020, so 12 months. Their IQs are so low, they can’t even read, talk, or wipe their own asses, let alone hold down a job!!
All by design and going according to plan
This “study” sounds like hogwash to me. The shutdowns began about 1 1/2 years ago. How much data could they even gather on babies who are slightly less than 18 months old?
Oh, but we must take babies out the home! We can’t have them cared for by their own parents, who are their best teachers and caregivers.
I hate these people.
My son is only in 2nd grade and he knows more math, science, and geography than the average 6th grader.
If we survive this, he’ll be leading these fools that are being born now.
Of course we may be immigrating to South America before long, so that will make his leadership over the dummies even easier.
They may well have voted in the 2020 election.
To two, too!!!
haha :-)
The spellcheck funny pages never fail!!!
How old are these Children ? LOL
How old are they? Like 2yo? IQ tested?
I would assume in each of the groupings by calendar year the distribution of kids by age in months are similar.
Do a search on what a 16 month old child should be doing.
It is early so they may catch up, but they may not. I am surprised because I would have thought the kids would have had more interaction at home with parents and siblings than day care.
This article is BS. You can’t get an accurate IQ rating at two years old. And, as they get older, their score will go up.
Really? Definitive IQs on babies?
One can tell a general intelligence but detailed? Come on.
Wait at least a few years.
And as for “but their environment was stunted” reasoning….BS. Lots of people in our history had to grow up in the wilderness alone except for family. I guess all those pioneers were stupid.
The study included 672 children from the state of Rhode Island. Also, the study has not been peer-reviewed.
Sounds like an attempt to shame mommies and daddies who have discovered that staying home with their sweet little ones is preferable to dumping them in the kiddie kennel. Don’t they know the State is a better parent???
You must be careful about studying cognition in very young children. Even good psychologists can get this wrong. My brother was diagnosed as mentally retarded when he was very young and wound up as the class valedictorian at a very challenging high school.
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