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Lockdowns Leave Toddlers Unable to Speak and Play Properly

by Will Jones
16 May 2022 6:39 PM

Toddlers’ speech and motor skills have dropped sharply in the wake of the pandemic, official data show. The Telegraph has the story.

Experts said that repeated lockdowns had left young children without the chance to play and learn how to communicate, setting back their development.

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) raised fears that the gaps being witnessed now could widen in coming years, with increasing numbers of children struggling at school because basic skills were never learned.

Assessments show that one in five children are not meeting expected standards by the age of two-and-a-half, with thousands likely to need help such as speech and language therapy.

The figures came amid warnings from speech and language therapists that they are facing increasing demand, with one in three saying referrals have doubled since the pandemic.

Figures published by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities show that 79.6% of children who received a review last autumn met the expected level in all five areas of development measured.

Across the preceding three-and-a-half years covered by the data, the figure was 83.1%, the Health Service Journal reported…

Communication skills suffered one of the most significant falls in performance, according to data. Just 85.3% of children hit the expected standard, down from 88.1% over the previous 14 quarters.

Dr Doug Simkiss, the chairman of the British Association for Community Child Health, said: “The pandemic reduced the opportunities for children to play with other children and highlights the importance of nurseries and early years settings for language development.”

Worth reading in full.

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MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago

I imagine the globalists will recommend late stage abortion as the solution.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

How late? Three years post-partum?

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Vaxtastic
Vaxtastic
3 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

Up to 18 years.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Vaxtastic

Yes. As we’ve seen from the lockdowns, children don’t matter any more.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

I don’t know what the “globalists” might recommend, but whoever recommended those appalling playground boxes (as shown in the terrible photograph accompanying this article) should never be allowed to work with children again.

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Amari
Amari
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Those poor children in the picture. I can hardly imagine the psychological damage that must be causing them.

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PatrickF
PatrickF
3 years ago

How many teachers taught, or still teach in a mask?
Children need to see your virtue signalling faces to learn!

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dante
dante
3 years ago
Reply to  PatrickF

All the teachers in my kids primary school are still wearing them in the classroom.

I would email the Headteacher to point out the obvious, but she is still wearing one also, so what’s the flipping point. I gave up on that lot years ago (my God it really is two years now 😖).

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  dante

Jesus I’m shocked. My daughter’s school never used them at all even at the height of the plandemic. I would be apoplectic if I was in your situation; I’m not sure if I’d even send her in.

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dante
dante
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

It’s bad, really bad. I know what the response would be if I did email in, I would be told that it’s personal choice if the teachers want to wear one or not.

None of the teachers at the High School are wearing them anymore, which leads me to believe something peculiar is going on in that Primary school. The Headteacher is fully bought into all the Covid measures, like genuinely believed they were keeping people safe. She was quite extreme. We have had many, many, many email communications, so she knows exactly where I stand.

I have a feeling that the staff are following her lead, no one wants to take them off until she does maybe?

Who knows, my wee one is going up to high school in August hence why I am not overly bothered, but if she was in younger years I would be going bananas about it.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  dante

It really was luck of the draw how badly schools damaged their pupils and much to do with the head. I’ve been fortunate at my (secondary) school. I made my feeling known strongly from the outset about masks and ‘vaccines’ and the school was quite gracious about it. Basically I got left alone, and since then the head has been notably very friendly towards me which makes me think she might be a closet sceptic. I heard on the grapevine she refused to find out which staff were ‘vaccinated’ because she didn’t think it was the school’s business. At another school it might have been a very different story. I’m sorry to hear about your experience; my blood boils on yours and your daughter’s behalf.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

The “luck of the draw” has applied in many and curious ways.

In Western Australia, which has some of the most appalling legislation in the world (about 75% of the workforce facing mandated injections), children lost very little or no schooling and spent very little time in masks (nobody under 8 was ever required to wear them at all).

The “luck” in this case came from turning the state into what amounted to a vast open-air prison.

On the brighter side: what a difference was made by those principals and employers everywhere whose decency prevailed.

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Vaxtastic
Vaxtastic
3 years ago
Reply to  dante

They are women working in a female dominated field. Did you think female nature would change after a few decades of propaganda telling us they’re just as able as men despite not managing to field notable engineers, medical innovators or artists of note?

Women think emotionally. They have to work hard not to. Just like men have to put in a lot of effort to pick a couch; they can do it but it is not the factory setting 🤠

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rtaylor
rtaylor
3 years ago
Reply to  Vaxtastic

This is end times…

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civilliberties
civilliberties
3 years ago
Reply to  rtaylor

looks like a doctor who villain

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paul smith
paul smith
3 years ago
Reply to  civilliberties

…or, recently, a Doctor Who. Full stop.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  rtaylor

She probably welcomes the opportunity, having bad breath and rotten teeth.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

A number of years ago I was barred from my daughters Grammar school for all of 12 hours, until the Head of Education Service for Kent visited our house the next morning, heard my side of the story and told me to ignore the letter he had written to me.

He drove my daughter to school.

Between us we eventually had an assistant head teacher take early retirement and the head teachers contract was not extended.

The abuse and bullying my daughter suffered from staff had to be seen to be believed.

I shudder to think what I would have done had my kids still been at school during covid.

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rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  dante

Have you not thought about homeschooling or setting up a Free School where mask wearing is specifically outlawed and everyone knows it up front?

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  PatrickF

Who wants to see their faces?

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

Yes, those squares, and that horrible dystopian picture. That’s not what childhood is supposed to be like. And things like this happened in Britain? For no good reason? Heaven help us.

There’s a furore in Rochdale about a child who was attacked by a dog. I suggest the people who gave us all this “squares” nonsense are on the same level. In fact worse, because it was deliberate, or at least deliberately not prioritising the needs of children (see the Birkenhead drill). How much longer are adults going to continue harming children for adults’ supposed benefit?

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

I honestly wonder if those dystopian playground squares ever really existed or if it was optics; part of the propaganda?

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civilliberties
civilliberties
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

wouldn’t surprise me, history has shown how images were manipulated to ensure the propaganda machine worked as planned, now with the ease of photo and video editing, anything is possible to be mocked up.

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rockoman
rockoman
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Yes, they alway use the same 1 or 2 pictures.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

The photograph with the article was said to have been taken in France when I first saw it.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

There’s a furore in Rochdale about a child who was attacked by a dog.

But barely a murmur about children attacked by grooming gangs.

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miketa1957
miketa1957
3 years ago

Look, I understand that people are concerned about childhood development and all that, but people really have to realise that elderly people were very vulnerable to this virus. It is much more important that elderly people, who, after all, have given their lives effort to this country, are able to have even a little more life. Even if it is only one day, it is important. In future years, as they grow up, these children will grow to be proud of the sacrifice they made for the elderly. Each day, as they grow to understand the development they have given up, we must hope that they become truly grateful for the opportunity that the pandemic has given them to demonstrate their willingness to sacrifice their futures for others.

/S

Last edited 3 years ago by miketa1957
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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

Truly prattish comments: most elderly did not want to be ‘protected’ and, indeed, they were not protected; they were exposed to appalling isolation and abuse. As children get older they will actually come to appreciate that all generations were abused and damaged by truly inhumane government policies.

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PaulMac66
PaulMac66
3 years ago
Reply to  iane

I don’t think you got their sarcasm.

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miketa1957
miketa1957
3 years ago
Reply to  PaulMac66

Thanks. He didn’t 🙂

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

And they’re worried about children’s development? 🤣

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miketa1957
miketa1957
3 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

/S <— for those who miss it!!

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TheBluePill
TheBluePill
3 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

I would have hoped that it would be understood without the /S

Although with the state of some of the prolific troll posters on here, I can see how it could be taken literally.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

Unfortunately (I know you weren’t serious) their sacrificed development will probably ensure that they never appreciate the sacrifice they made.
Job done!, says the government.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

I think it’s wrong to frame this as a young versus old issue. In my opinion, Corona’s witnesses were mainly afraid for themselves and just hid behind their typical age group while harming everyone else alike.

Example of the real-world COVID: A friend of my mother (in her age group and she’s in her early eighties) got hospitalized twice in 2021, once with a pneumonia because of Sars-CoV2 and once with a pneumonia she got because of something else. She recovered without major problems both times. In between #1 and #2, she got married to her partner of some years, something he urged her to do because he didn’t again want to go through a situation where she’s in hospital and he can’t even get any information about how she is because he’s unrelated to her. As far as I know, they then started to live happily everthereafter as married couple.

Last edited 3 years ago by RW
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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

I help a lady in her 90s. Recently she was taken to hospital with pneumonia – there for about 10 days. Of course, no-one would tell me anything about her – only her son (who doesn’t give a f. about her) was given updates. Patients should be able to sign a declaration saying that they are happy for ANYONE who phones up about them to be given an update on their progress (if they wish).

The main reason more people are dying at home is because they fear the appalling isolation of today’s hospitals. I feel sure of that.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

What it highlights is the importance of behaving like human beings.

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dante
dante
3 years ago

And yet I still see mothers in face masks around their young children, even when it’s no longer mandated to do so.

What is wrong with them? Are these mothers mentally ill?

I make sure they see my aghast disapproving stares, but I also find it heartbreaking.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  dante

Probably saves them having to sort out their lippie and acne creams.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  dante

They’re stupid.
Most people are stupid.
Always were.

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Virefirer
Virefirer
3 years ago

Specialist subject the b. obvious, except to gov.uk, sages and genius behavioural scientists.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

I wonder what other “issues” will come out of the woodwork? We still have the full term benefits of jabbing billions of people with an experimental drug to look forward to.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Who here will be taking Dame Sarah Gilbert to court?

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Hopeless - "TN,BN"
Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago

Probably best to bring back as much domestic coal-burning fireplaces as possible. For all the care we’ve taken of the young, we may as well go back to pre-Victorian values and have them climb chimneys.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless - "TN,BN"

With the food shortages being predicted, they’ll probably be slim enough to clean boiler flues from the inside (while we still have boilers, of course).

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless - "TN,BN"

That’s what The Conservative Party is all about – Victorian values. All these people moaning about not being able to afford to heat their homes… put them in the workhouse and make them put their backs into it – that should keep ’em warm!

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless - "TN,BN"

We can send them into heat pumps, might make them work better!

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miketa1957
miketa1957
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Like hamsters?

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civilliberties
civilliberties
3 years ago

I don’t think anyone should allow hancock, Johnson, witty, valence etc etc near children ever again, if any citizen had undertaken the many things over the last 2 yrs that politicians had done, they would be in prison, but, alas, rules for thee but not for me.

and that pic above is diabolical.

Last edited 3 years ago by civilliberties
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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago

Will they need speech and motor skills though? Surely they can still all get jobs as Diversity Officers, Woke Enforcers, and Vaccine Delivery Attendants without those bothersome old-fashioned so-called educational values like speaking, or using a pencil. Besides, hitting performance standards is basically racist, not to mention colonial. So slap a mask on them, pump them full of genetic therapy goop, and they’ll be fine, trust me.

Oh, and /sarc off.

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Vaxtastic
Vaxtastic
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

😉

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

Ah but if it saved just one life

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Problem with this: We don’t know this and can’t really determine that.

The people who were behind this in the USA are just very much convinced that their hitherto untried measures must have had a dramatic effect on disease propagation because someone created an excel model according to which the really ought to in 2006. But without some sort of repeatable experiment, a cause-effect relation cannot be proven. Surely, reality would never disagree with my excel spreadsheet! isn’t good enough for that.

Last edited 3 years ago by RW
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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

Just what the global cabal ordered

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

Can’t ‘speak and play’? All the easier to indoctrinate and brainwash them into their “sparkling” digital ‘Great Reset’ future.

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rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Children can be indoctrinated and brainwashed very, very easily even if they can speak and play. I see it all the time with adults as well as children.

They didn’t need a pandemic and lockdowns if all they wanted was the ability to indoctrinate and brainwash.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

No, those were just useful side effects that might prevent rioting, etc, when the real reset thing is begun and they realise they can ”own nothing”.

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rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago

Children will learn to communicate with adults, assuming they live with parents. What they will have been lacking will have been peer-to-peer engagement with other children their own age.

I know very well what it’s like perfectly able to communicate with people much older from a very young age, but being isolated in a peer-group. It’s a far, far more serious problem than having problems with parents.

When you grow up, you don’t need to be so close to parents, but you always need a network in your own generation.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago

Has anyone listened to our current generation of teenagers speak?

NOW this is recognised as problematic.

FFS……

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Not only how they speak…. This may sound a minor point – but have you seen how nearly all teenagers hold a pen? And their writing all looks exactly the same, as if done by a young child.

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civilliberties
civilliberties
3 years ago

It makes you wonder if the transhumanist agenda has been going on for a long while and people have being slowly altered within say the last 15 yrs or so, it seems people are different to what they were say 40 yrs ago, both in speech and also how they act and think etc. It would also seem as if the very young children have been altered within the last 2 yrs as if they were changed into something else.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago

Not just toddlers, Wokes were affected in the same way

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dearieme
dearieme
3 years ago

I disapprove of “vigilante justice” but if there isn’t some proper punishment for the swine who inflicted all this on the bairns then I would be prepared to turn a blind eye to it.

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paul parmenter
paul parmenter
3 years ago

So the plan is working a treat then.

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RTSC
RTSC
3 years ago

Long term plan: They may be children now, but in due course uneducated, un-socialised, brainwashed and anxiety-ridden adults will be so much easier to control.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
3 years ago

Blind Freddy could have seen this coming, but apparently missed by professional educators.

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MikeHaseler
MikeHaseler
3 years ago

Kind of predictable … except to covidiots.

Last edited 3 years ago by MikeHaseler
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Amari
Amari
3 years ago

Surely this is the result of parents not spending time with their children, but just putting them in from of the TV/giving them their mobile phones to entertain them?

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago

Oh really? And what do bears still do in the woods?

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