@MarciMelzerWOC
Marci Melzer
@MarciMelzerWOC · 0:43

Why do you believe so many kids are showing speech delay in 2022?

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Hey, everybody. So I'm excited to bring this question to the Swell forum, and I'm interested to hear your perspective. So I work with parents of of kids that are not talking yet. And even before the pandemic, we had statistics of one in eight children being late talking. Now we are seeing those numbers skyrocketing, and I'm wondering if you have an opinion about why you believe so many children are showing speech delay in 2022

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@gracepouri
grace pouri
@gracepouri · 0:52
You know, I've been thinking about things like this recently with my sister, and because her son was a little speech delayed girl when he was young, and this was about a year ago, and I honestly think it has to do with the pandemic. And parents who have these little kids are much more scared to let the kids out in the environment. That back ten years ago. We were already in preschool and you're out with a bunch of people
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@allowthesun
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 2:47
So if you have any studies or anything, how that is affecting just overall development and specifically speech, yeah, I could talk a lot about this, but I'm really looking forward to hearing more of the other shares and what you have to say
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@MarciMelzerWOC
Marci Melzer
@MarciMelzerWOC · 1:19

@gracepouri

And it is true that children learn more spoken language from peers and siblings and friends and aunts and uncles and everybody they run into in the community. Then they can learn just from their parents. The other thing that I wonder is what are these parents choosing to do as a connected interaction with their kids when they also choose to restrict them from letting them go out into the world?
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@MarciMelzerWOC
Marci Melzer
@MarciMelzerWOC · 4:14

@allowthesun

And remember, kids won't do things that they don't need to if they have other people talking for them, if they have their needs met without needing to ask themselves. All of those things restrict practice. And we're talking about kids that haven't learned spoken language yet. We all got more quiet during the pandemic. But these late talking kids, they never had language to begin with
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@MarciMelzerWOC
Marci Melzer
@MarciMelzerWOC · 4:18

@theprimalbrain

That's how children learn spoken language. And when those experiences are restricted in a child, they're going to show behaviors that other ways, they're going to find other ways to communicate and it's going to look like behaviors. Now, often people are judging those behaviors as some sort of physiological or neurological problem. And I'm super glad that you are seeing that these behaviors that look like neurological issues are just from a true neurological lack of development and that has happened through lack of experience
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@tashr03
Tasha Russell
@tashr03 · 1:50

@gracepouri

Hi. I wanted to respond. I've been listening. I've listened to everyone's response here on Swell. I had been teaching for about 27 five years. I'm about to enter my 20 the 8th year. I teach middle school children, and I don't really see speech delays in a lot of my students, but there are some my undergrad degree, special education. This summer I taught Esy extended school year with the special ed kids
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@MarciMelzerWOC
Marci Melzer
@MarciMelzerWOC · 2:22

@tashr03

And through the course of the year, you watch when kids are not equipped to use their words to communicate, you guide them. When you see them in class, you are able to see how they interact with each other and you can catch those things and help guide those kids to use their speech more appropriately
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@humblecreations
And so the TV solution, because they sit in front of the TV, so there's no communication in the home or there's stress in the home. And the way parents are communicating was not a good way. Sometimes it was aggressive, sometimes with yelling and all that. And so the kids pick up everything and so that's the way mom and dad are communicating. So that's the way we're going to communicate and we're being ignored
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@joebarket
Joe barket
@joebarket · 0:47
My son was born in 2020. He'll be two in September and does have speech development issues. He was born with a physical issue, no fibula in his left leg. So we think that maybe because of that, there also may be some other development issues that has affected his speech. He is seeing a speech therapist now, which has helped a lot, but definitely still behind this speech. Especially compared to my older son, who was just born a year earlier than him in 2019
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@MarciMelzerWOC
Marci Melzer
@MarciMelzerWOC · 1:43

@humblecreations

Thank you for your response to my question. I really appreciate this aspect of the discussion. You know, the idea of parents being distracted by by solving the problems of life is not something new. It certainly was happening in family way before the Pandemic. I just agree that maybe the Pandemic brought this problem out to light. Another one of the responses had talked about how families, some families just have more problems to solve than other families. They have fewer resources and more ways to stretch them out
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@MarciMelzerWOC
Marci Melzer
@MarciMelzerWOC · 1:28

@joebarket

So it could be that it just took a little bit longer for your second child to become just as empowered as your first child and now that he's moving around better and maybe his walking as he's getting stronger and he's mobile now the speech will catch up. That's what I would expect for a kiddo like that
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@NickGweezy
Nick G
@NickGweezy · 1:34
And that's why we're in a recession, because nobody's doing anything and nobody has any muscle anymore, because we had the computers do everything. And guess what? The computers aren't really doing it. That's why everything is inflated, because nobody's making anything, nobody's learning anything. Nobody's talking about anything. They want to text
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@MarciMelzerWOC
Marci Melzer
@MarciMelzerWOC · 0:32
Hey, thanks for chiming in with your perspective. It seems to be a real theme here that a lot of people believe that it is the lack of inperson learning opportunities that caused a lot of kids to be late talking or not using their best speech. I think it is definitely happening with people of all ages and the problem did happen before the pandemic and it certainly is worse now. Thanks again for chiming in
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@Mama_G
Mama G
@Mama_G · 1:25
Or shouldn't maybe saying this by now, but once you're home with them and you realize that all the time, then you really see that maybe things are delayed. But if everybody was in daycare and the parents both had to go to work, then maybe it wouldn't be noticed as soon. So yes, I feel like it has to do with the pandemic, but not in the same way, if that makes any sense at all
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@chelle3290
Michelle Smith
@chelle3290 · 1:26
I work with children in the early childhood field who have speech delays. One of them, he uses a pacifier every time he cries his mom shall surpass the fire in he sleeps with a pacifier, takes pictures of of the pacifier and I think it's the pacifier that stopped him from talking properly and having those speech delays. I also have another student who has speech delays but his has to do with the language barrier. He speaks Spanish they speak Spanish in the home. They need to speak more English
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