Wes 🇵🇸 on Twitter: "Basically in order to really know what the effect is there'll need to be a longitudinal study, but not enough time has passed for that so we'll have to wait" / Twitter

Here's the opinion of someone who actually studies child language acquisition on the masking/speech issue. tl;dr only going to present problems if the child is deaf. Most language acquisition occurs before age 3 so it will occur in-home. School is mainly for expanding lexicon

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dr caitlin green (offense archaeologist)

@caitlinmoriah

Aug 24

worried about language development and masks? worry not!! kjzz.org/content/176587 healthychildren.org/English/health

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@weskerfoot

Aug 25

This is the only study I could find that directly looked at infant directed speech with masks. They did find an effect on recognition, but with caveats. And as mentioned most parents probably aren't going to be masked at home

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(PDF) Auditory and visual cues in face-masked infant-directed speech | ResearchGate

PDF | Language includes auditory and visual cues relevant to language learning, and infants have been shown to take advantage of those cues while... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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@weskerfoot

Basically in order to really know what the effect is there'll need to be a longitudinal study, but not enough time has passed for that so we'll have to wait

2:13 PM · Aug 25, 2022Twitter for Android

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