The Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) has shown in a study that The covid-19 pandemic has affected the language development of children born during this stagesince it is “slower” than that of those born before the health crisis.
As part of the analysis published in the “Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiologia”, the researchers have examined both vocabulary development data and morphosyntax (ability to produce increasingly complex sentences) of 153 boys and girls between 18 and 31 months of age.
The Multimodal Communication and Human Development research team has been in charge of comparing data from two groups that were matched in the age and educational level of the mothers and who studied in similar kindergartens.
These, in turn, were divided into pre groupsof children born and evaluated before the pandemic, y postwith children born between October 2019 and December 2020.
The conclusions point out that the restrictions arising from the pandemic have limited the social interactions and relationship contexts of the children in the post group, and that the linguistic stimuli they have received abound “have been affected” by both the reduction in the variety and frequency of social interactions.