"ASHA has reached out to CDC, expressing its concern about inconsistencies and urging the agency to utilize the expertise of SLPs when making changes to developmental milestones."
Important statement by @ASHAWeb RE latest CDC updates:
👉 "the milestones presented to parents must be evidence-based"
Tell me you are calling out the @CDCgov@AmerAcadPeds without telling me you are calling out...
This thread has background on the issue.
It's long and it meandered a bit; some of the more important info is towards the end. Thanks to everyone who stayed with it and raised awareness of this troubling CDC milestone change.
In the Before Times, I bet you could get doctors like Freedman and the many health professionals reposting his thread to agree that this CDC change is bad. Poorly-executed, at minimum.
I've been digging into claims that @CDCgov recently lowered its bar for children's speech development.
CDC did change milestones. Today, it's out of line with @ASHAWeb & NY State.
Importantly, these other orgs haven't changed any guidance during the pandemic.
Let's unpack.
Now, I'm not a speech pathologist, nor do I play one on Twitter. But literacy advocates & Speech & Language Pathologists share common advocacy terrain, so I Know People.
I had many conversations today with SLP friends. The universal refrain:
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (@ASHAWeb) is clear that "saying fewer than 50 words" when a child is two years old is a sign of a "language problem."
Increasing use of high-quality curriculum is a longtime goal of many states. In fact, 13 states participate in @CCSSO's High-Quality Instructional Materials and Professional Development (IMPD) network, squarely focused on this goal.
As we near 2 yr anniversary of US COVID restrictions, borne most heavily by children…
Docs speaking out for normalcy for kids find their home locations & kids’ details posted online by anonymous trolls.
In viciously personal threads that get amplified by PH Twitter giants.
I’m not going to give one more eyeball to the thread by linking to it. Good for Twitter for removing the doxxing Tweets and at least Gonsalves came to his senses.
But this is what passes for discourse in America. For advocating for approaches already successful in Europe.
I will, however, amplify these replies to Gonsalves,
The main reason kids don’t get enough work with books at their grade level:
These curricula put kids into leveled reading groups, in which they do their literacy lessons with books at that level.
When you go into classrooms, you find kids in low, medium, and high groups.
It’s treated like a smart, even scientific approach.
But there is zero evidence that it works, and compelling evidence that challenging all kids with books at their grade level develops reading skills more effectively. More info summarized here: