Child Speech Pathologies Are At An All-Time High -- Because of Randi Weingarten, Deborah Brix, and Anthony Fauci

And anyone else who pushed, or permitted, mass lockouts of schools.

In a recent interview with Sky News, London resident Viral Bhundia described what it was like to watch his young son Jay struggle with speaking.

"If he wanted something he would scream, and it was up to us to kind of decode it and figure out what he wanted," said Bhundia. "Does he want a cup? Does he want water?"

Jay's struggles are not an anomaly. They are part of a broader trend of children across the world lagging in basic language communication.

The latest evidence comes from Speech and Language UK, which found one out of every five children in the United Kingdom are behind in basic speech. This is reportedly the "highest number of children with speech and language challenges ever recorded" in the UK, Sky News noted.

It's not difficult to glean why so many children are deficient in basic language skills. Around the world, governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with an arsenal of blunt tools-- lockdowns, mandatory mask orders, endless social distancing, and travel restrictions--which had a devastating impact on learning development. (Of these, masking in particular is viewed by many as the primary cause of speech delays.)

The pandemic years were a challenge for everyone, but it was particularly damaging for children, an abundance of evidence shows. In the United States, for example, ACT scores fell to 30-year lows, while teenage girls reported record levels of sadness and suicidal tendencies, likely because of widespread social isolation.

It's important to understand such social outcomes were not caused primarily by the virus, but by government responses to the virus.

David Strom calls it a matter of "child sacrifice" as government policy.

The result is a generation of young children who have trouble even talking, and struggle to emotionally connect with and understand the people around them.

A vast collection of research spanning decades demonstrated that children get vital emotional and intellectual cues from facial expressions, and there have been milestones recognized for years related to infants and toddlers learning vital lessons from observing others' facial expressions. As early as Spring 2020 people were warning that mask mandates would harm child development. The American Academy of Pediatrics, which knew better, denied that children's development would be harmed by masking.

They were lying then--they knew better. It was impossible that they didn't know because they had relied on many of these studies in setting milestones--and they appear to have no regrets about the damage they have done. The Narrative was and is more important than the children.

But the Teachers Union decided that teachers should have the perks of being part of the Laptop Class, and the "experts" had to shut down society as hard as possible as a political rebuke to Trump, who initially talked down the threat of the virus and offered optimistic projections of the pandemic passing quickly. To show him who was boss, the experts destroyed the economy and condemned 20% of children to developmental delays in talking to their fellow human beings.

All for politics. All for disgusting, meltbrain vicious cat-lady politics.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:51 PM

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