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Speaking to Fox News Digital from her home in New Jersey, a mom of a 3-year-old boy who has developmental speech delays said of the mask mandates that still exist in her state as of right now, “For speech therapy for a toddler, masking isn’t exactly what you should be doing, at least in my opinion. It’s against what you’re trying to accomplish.”
She said, “It’s like if a dentist required the patient to wear a mask, right? I think for speech therapy for a child, it’s the same thing.”
The mom did not want her family’s name used due to privacy concerns. She also said she lives in “a liberal area” and would feel uncomfortable if it became known within her community that she’d spoken out on this issue.
Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, a Democrat, said this week that the Garden State will be lifting its school mask mandate for children and staffers. Yet the state’s mandate will remain in place for another month — until March 7, 2022.
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The mom in New Jersey described a troubling scenario she and her family faced recently — one that still gets her upset and angry when she discusses it.
She said her young son, whose speech is delayed, was receiving regular speech instruction from a therapy practice. His therapy started, coincidentally, around the beginning of the COVID pandemic. At that time, he was not wearing a mask.
But then, because of state mask mandates as well as continuing concerns about COVID transmission and infection in early 2022 — and once a therapist in the practice became pregnant — the mom was told by email that her little boy, out of an abundance of caution, would have to start wearing a mask during his sessions.
“All patients, they told me, had to begin wearing masks in order to receive treatment,” the mom said.
A child is shown wearing a mask indoors while working on a school project in this file photo.
Though the mom protested — how could a three-year-old child be…
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