Study Finds Children Born During Lockdown Have Lost IQ Points, Impaired Cognitive Functioning

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Who didn't see this coming?

A new study has found that mean IQ scores of young children born during the pandemic have tumbled by as much as 22 points while verbal, motor and cognitive performance have all suffered as a result of lockdown.

“With limited stimulation at home and less interaction with the world outside, pandemic-era children appear to have scored shockingly low on tests designed to assess cognitive development,” reports the Guardian.

The study was conducted by researchers at Brown University and included 672 children born both before and after the pandemic began in March 2020.

“In the decade preceding the pandemic, the mean IQ score on standardised tests for children aged between three months and three years of age hovered around 100, but for children born during the pandemic that number tumbled to 78,” the study found.

Researchers concluded that the primary reason for the impairment on cognitive functioning was lack of stimulation and interaction at home.

According to lead study author Sean Deoni, “The ability to course-correct becomes smaller, the older that child gets,” meaning that this inferior foundation is likely to impact the child throughout adolescence and into adulthood.

As Michael Curzon notes, all of these factors were exacerbated by lockdown measures which kept babies and young children away from other children, as well as mask mandates.

“Children born over the past year of lockdowns – at a time when the Government has prevented babies from seeing elderly relatives and other extended family members, from socialising at parks or with the children of their parent’s friends, and from studying the expressions on the faces behind the masks of locals in indoor public spaces – have significantly reduced verbal, motor and overall cognitive performance compared to children born before, according to a new U.S. study. Tests on early learning, verbal development and non-verbal development all produced results that were far behind those from the years preceding the lockdowns.”

The study was conducted in the state of Rhode Island and included predominantly white children.

The fate of poorer children from less affluent socio-economic backgrounds, most of whom will be non-white, is likely to be significantly worse.

However, don’t expect many leftists, who in general have vehemently supported draconian lockdowns, to care much about that.
https://summit.news/2021/08/13/study...e-functioning/

[Anglo-Celtic]

Washington (capital) kids can't go to school (in the virtual sense too) if they're not jabbed. Even Ray Charles saw this coming, and *he's* dead.

[JamesBond007]

Washington (capital) kids can't go to school (in the virtual sense too) if they're not jabbed. Even Ray Charles saw this coming, and *he's* dead.

It doesn't matter , anyway, the American government gave up on its own citizens a long time ago. They just import talent now e.g. H1b immigrants. If the government cared about Americans they would not sanction brain damaging psychiatric drugs in a certain sense psychiatry is a branch of law masquerading as medicine. Many, young kids are out on neuroleptics, nowadays. It used to be just legalized speed.

[Anglo-Celtic]

It doesn't matter , anyway, the American government gave up on its own citizens a long time ago. They just import talent now e.g. H1b immigrants. If the government cared about Americans they would not sanction brain damaging psychiatric drugs in a certain sense psychiatry is a branch of law masquerading as medicine. Many, young kids are out on neuroleptics, nowadays. It used to be just legalized speed.

It's no coincidence that mass school shootings increased as psychotropic drug usage increased. The DNC MSM treat the obvious connection as the elephant in the room, as the pachyderm balances on a radioactive third rail.

[Ylla]

Yes, lockdown has had a negative impact on children and it’s actually very heartbreaking. These are critical years for development in speech, language, and social skills. Toddlers were separated from their families, particularly their grandparents, preschools were closed as were clubs, groups and softplays.
I think it affected toddlers ability to interact with other children. Even now, we see toddlers playing alongside children rather than with them and having a preference for their teachers. I believe it’s the effects of lockdown.
It also depends on the parents and what they did with their toddlers. It was a great opportunity to homeschool and have intensive one-on-one interactions with our children. Toddler years are the most incredible ones for parents in my opinion. It is the most beautiful experience to have young children so close in age. As parents, we were able to cherish these years more due to working from home arrangements.
So yes, the nature of lockdown could lead to a less stimulating environment for children but as parents we have to be versatile through such things and take responsibility. There are many creative ways to stimulate our children at home.

[Fortnite777]

It'll probably go up as their life continues. IQ is much more malleable at younger ages, and then regresses/progresses to genetic potential as you grow. Some other aspects of their psychology, however, I fear will be permanently and significantly damaged.

[Tooting Carmen]

Quelle surprise...

[Atlantic Reptilian]

But you can always work on your weaknesses.