Board certified Clinical Neuropsychologist (ABPP) and licensed psychologist FL PY 6757 and lover of Doris Day movies
Feb 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@NatGeo “mask mandates may need to carve out exemptions for children who are deaf and need to read lips or for children with autism who struggle to interpret facial expressions”
Why might this be, if masks have no unwanted effects? 1/3@NatGeo 2/3 not once does this article acknowledge that some states opened and kept open schools with no mask mandates, 10 day quarantines or testing mandates. And it was fine.
Sep 7, 2021 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
Impact of COVID-related educational disruption on children and adolescents:
Long thread on our paper, which is out this week--will repost with live link later. Summary of the ten takeaways below! @drmollycolvin and @jenreesman made this a pleasure to write up.
Even brief educational disruption shown to have neg effects. PROLONGED disruption assoc'd with negative impact on academic achievement, exacerbated by loss of school services/economic strain/disruption of healthcare & tx--*disproportionately worse impact on marginalized groups*
Jun 23, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Ok some highlights: reading the report, a quick thread:
