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Specialists are very worried about toddlers struggling with understanding how to communicate amid growing lists and waiting times for speech and language therapy .
Multiple studies show that infants are talking less because parents haven t been able to engage them in language developing conversations due to COVID. This puts them at risk for academic failure.
Two years is a long time in the life of a young child. Is this era of masks, isolation and extra stress having a negative impact on our little ones? And if so, how deep and lasting will it be?