Masks also impede young children’s “social referencing” or ability to read social cues and emotions. Yet, despite all of this, Denver’s mask order still applies universally to three year olds.

Participants were shown images of adults and children, both with and without masks, and asked to identify emotions such as sadness, fear or anger based on the facial expressions.

Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin said it was a “sad day for children” after the South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the city’s requirement of face masks in elementary and ...

Worried face masks are impairing your child’s social and emotional development? You’re not alone. Let's face it, stressing about the impact of COVID on our kids is becoming a national pastime.

Brittany Manning is a Ph.D. student studying how children learn to speak. She is also a mother, wondering how masks might affect her infant daughter’s ability to learn language. “I&#821… ...

“It all makes me sad but the elderly & these young kids in school, having to live entire days in masks, is really upsetting,” Frankel, 51, tweeted on Tuesday.

BETHEL — SAD 44 school district voted last night to reopen the school with no mask mandate, albeit wearing masks strongly recommended. It was a 10 – 4 vote, with the majority of the ‘yes’s ...