Children born in Covid pandemic lack communication skills: Study

 

Infants were not exposed to adequate social interaction during the COVID lockdown.

About 88% of the 2020 group could say goodbye, compared to 95% of the 2011 group.

Children born in 2020 lack essential communication skills. And, the COVID-19 pandemic is to be blamed for this, says a new study from Harvard Medical School. The study, which looked at more than 21,000 infants, found that the COVID-19 pandemic affected children's ability to communicate.

According to pediatrician Jin Russell, babies were not kept in adequate social contact during the COVID lockdown. There are two basic reasons why the pandemic and the lockdown hindered the development of the child.

It is well known that, when parents take their newborns out, they are exposed to a wide variety of words and develop a large vocabulary. However, there weren't as many opportunities for parents to take their babies out. The second explanation is that the parents were under a lot of stress and low bandwidth. If parents were attempting to balance work at home and older children at home-school, they may have had little time to be attentive to their infant - 1 News quoted Russell as saying.

According to a separate research, 25% of newborns go a full year without meeting a child of their age. There were no unplanned encounters with neighbors or strangers at playgroups or grocery stores. He rarely got a chance to say goodbye.

In the Coral Research of Allergy and Autoimmune Dysregulation in Babies Born during Lockdown, about 77% of babies expressed a specific and meaningful phrase, in contrast to 89% of babies in 2011. Compared to other groups, only 93% of the coral group could indicate. About 88% of participants could say goodbye, compared to 95% of the 2011 group.


However, parents may not need to worry about it. According to experts, individuals now have many options to travel with their young children and give them a chance to experience the world as newborns are incredibly resilient and apparently, pandemic measures have been withdrawn .