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The thing is that speech perception is inherently multimodal (you will use visual info if it's there). From what I know about speech tho, losing that extra channel of data isn't necessarily going to mean you won't develop "normally".

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Natasha Burgert, MD

@DoctorNatasha

Aug 23

Wearing a mask does not cause speech delay. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

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You can still develop speech if you're missing the auditory part of it (deaf people learn sign language the same way other people learn to process speech, just with visual info rather than auditory). So it's not unreasonable to me that you could be fine with just auditory too.

Wes

@weskerfoot

Aug 24

That being said, I don't think anyone is wearing a mask 24/7, so parents are still looking at their babies without masks at home, right? Plus TV shows and movies are still going to be a source of seeing people making speech sounds.