Some parents express worry that masks might interfere with children's ability to learn or to socialize. Other parents fear that unmasking will lead to more COVID-19 cases.
show that children tend to watch mouths and faces closely when learning to speak and read emotions. But it's less clear what happens when these visual cues aren't available in the classroom.At least one unpublished study has found that pandemic masking isn't an obstacle to learning, even for children as young as 3 or 4.
About half the children in the study used hearing aids or cochlear implants. And those kids also did fine with masks, says Samantha Mitsven, a doctoral candidate at the University of Miami. While Gallaudet University now permits teachers to remove their masks during presentations, the Clerc Center continues to encourage masking to protect vulnerable students. The center does permit the use of clear masks or clear plastic shields for some interactions, such as speech therapy or audiology.
"When they go in the classroom and everything's changed, it's just really disorienting," Camarata says. The result is often disruptive behavior and a lack of learning.
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