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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Children born during the pandemic were all democrats?
Permanent damage being done to this country and its future. But still can’t punish the politicians and medical communities that put us there.
That was to easy.👍
bttt
Gee, rly?
We’ve only been warning about this.....for over a year, now!
How do the test IQ on kids that are 18 months old?
That’s ridiculous. Most have had closer bonds with parents and relatives.
Probably similar to the process of counting votes for people who actually didn't vote.
Well the pandemic promoters will see this as one of their long-term victories, I expect.
Let’s ask a two month old to do calculus
Oh, BS.
Let’s ask a two month old to do calculus
It appears that the Demorat policy is working, it’s easier to make our Society dumber that to make it smarter.
That shouldn't be too hard. Experts have determined the IQ of presidents going all the way back to George Washington.
Imagine that. A newborn experiences seeing most people wearing masks so the child can’t “read” the person’s facial expression. No positive feedback for learning. Surprise, surprise, they’re developmentally stunted. What is more concerning is humans are pretty much designed to reach certain cognitive levels at certain points in their life. If you delay a child’s foundational cognitive development for the 1st two years, will they ever “catch up”?
urban Amish newborns hardest hit
How well do they walk, do they talk, do they stack cups, how do they react to various stimulus, etc.
Moms and dads staying home with babies causes their IQ scores to fall? Parental stress and frazzling during WW2 didn't seem to do that, even when bombs were dropping on families and babies.
Alternatively, "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False"
Unfortunately, now it looks like there will be more future Democrat voters.
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