Interesting, I was thinking about this and fuming about it on discord earlier. I read a study about what effect people wearing masks had on babies' ability to form words. Of course it is detrimental, that's clearly the point.xileffilex wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:30 pmWhile some may suggest deaf people could read subtitles during TV briefings, BSL and English are distinct languages.
Stewart-Taylor classes BSL as her first language and although she was taught to speak English at school she has an "average reading age of seven years old".
She says: "Trying to decipher the information [from subtitles] is like trying to work out something written in a foreign language."
https://parenting.kars4kids.org/masks-a ... t-matters/
No shit, Sherlock.Masks may make a difference when it comes to baby’s speech and and language development. That’s the upshot of a recent article at Scientific American, Masks Can Be Detrimental to Babies’ Speech and Language Development. The article echoes our own conclusions from several months ago in Face Masks: What Happens When Baby Can’t See Faces?
In his own article, Lewkowicz explains that babies begin to babble at around 8 months, when they become interested in speech and language. That is why they start lip-reading at this precise point in time. Babies are now looking for anything that helps them understand this fascinating new means of communication: speech. By reading lips, says Lewkowicz, babies glean important visual cues that help them for instance, figure out “which face goes with which voice.” But when the adults around them are wearing face masks, babies miss out on the information they need to make sense of what they hear.
But never mind addressing the uselessness of masks, the total lack of quality standards with regards to what people are strapping to their faces, the making of a quick buck on PPE looking bits of fabric and spraying with chemicals in lieu of sterile conditions; the changes to the international definitions about what constitutes a pandemic, that there does not need to be deaths, so why are we even wearing masks in the first place? All so we will be able to bid for future research grants and obfuscate about the thing we are told we can research, conclude the conclusions that are required by the brief, and ignore everything else that might be detrimental to us getting funding in future consensus studies.The pandemic hasn’t been around long enough for any long term studies to have been published to tell us the effect of face masks on baby’s ability to acquire speech and language. To tell the truth: COVID-19 hasn’t been around long enough for anyone to be an expert on any aspect of the disease or its impact. So we can only look at the available information and draw the most logical conclusions.
No it doesn't sound funny, it sounds like you need to be put behind bars.Bottom line? It sounds funny, but without lips, many of us just can’t hear. So why should we expect our babies, so new to speech and language, to be any different? Faced with a face that is covered with a mask, baby loses out on many of the clues he needs to make sense of this new thing called “speech.”
