Developmental issues due to COVID

amother

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Today at 6:50 am

I work with toddlers in a daycare, and 2 years ago, the year that we had all the covid babies, 5 of the 12 kids in the class had speech delays for their age. Last year there were also a few speech delayed kids, but not as significant. Typically it's normal to have 1-3 kids with some delays in a group of 12, be it speech, cognitive or physical.

amother

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Today at 9:47 am

amother Daylily wrote:

Not as a baby, but as a 3yo, and yes. It's very very sad because this child was ahead in every way developmentally before that. And a few weeks after contracting COVID the child just stopped advancing. Just stopped. Didn't regress but no further development especially in speech and language but in other areas as well. Now the child is "developmentally delayed" at age 6, Crying

kept back for another year of kindergarten and iyH I am davening will start grade 1 in a good place. Literally my only developmentally advanced kid, is now delayed because someone decided to spread omicron and that quarantine doesn't have to be kept if you fly in from abroad covid positive.

The kid also now fits the definition of ASD. ASD is something you are born with but this child is now presenting as ASD even though they don't fit the criteria of having it start before age 3. It's very very sad. Heartbreaking and infuriating and [censored].

Research is showing that kids (and adults but more rarely) who contracted COVID often suffer speech and language delays. Get your child speech therapy ASAP. There is no cure but there are strategies to help him cope.

And for the doubters who think COVID is like flu - flu doesn't attack your nervous system, COVID does. You don't get long flu or brain fog or language delays or half-dead placentas from flu, only from COVID.

All infections have the ability to affect the nervous system, including flu. People can have chronic flu infections and lost lasting neurological symptoms from the flu.