ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) announced updated COVID-19 mask, isolation, and quarantine guidance. The OCFS, in collaboration with the ...

School-aged children are returning to the classrooms after a year of being in isolation due to a nationwide shutdown, all of this is happening while government officials grapple with how to teach ...

What about masks for children under the age of 5, ... And it also means that families have to take time off of work to take care of children who are quarantined or in isolation.

Parents of children with IEPs say their children's learning may have been set back by mask-wearing, causing speech delays.

If total isolation isn’t possible, the CDC recommends that the person with COVID-19 wear a mask whenever they have to be around other people, inside or outside of the home.

Child care programs may not completely eliminate quarantine with negative tests and universal masks at this time. Increasing access to tests for staff and children remains a goal of OHA.

Arwen Evans prepares to read “The Safe Return,” a children's book she co-authored with her sister Ashley Wheelock, to her children, Kit, Beatrix and Ginger at their home in Greenwich ...

Speech pathologists and therapists are now seeing developmental deficits in children due to COVID-19 measures, including mask mandates and isolation. Children are struggling to read facial cues, ...

Readers criticize a column by Bret Stephens asserting that mask mandates were ineffective. Also: Children and loss; John Fetterman; population growth.

Many of today’s children will have had formative childhood experiences behind their masks, in various stages of social isolation, and with an unprecedented reliance on the digital space, all in ...