Did the COVID pandemic stunt kids’ development?
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Did the COVID pandemic stunt kids’ development?

B2中高级2026年9月29日21分钟

It’s a conversation at playgrounds and in classrooms: parents and teachers worry that kids who spent formative years at home during the COVID-19 pandemic are set back, emotionally, socially or academically. But what does science say? Did stay-at-home life permanently impact kids who lived through it? Joining host Flora Lichtman to dig into the research are child development experts Anna Johnson and Stephanie Jones. Guests: Dr. Anna Johnson, Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Dr. Stephanie Jones, Professor of Early Childhood Development at the Harvard Graduate School of...

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Hey, it's Flora Lichtman, and you're listening to Science Friday. For years, at bus stops, in classrooms, at PTA meetings, parents and teachers have been having conversations in hushed inside voices about whether the kids are all right after COVID.

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Did the pandemic set kids back emotionally, developmentally, academically? in these conversations, there is a lot of concern, there's a lot of hand wringing, and there's not a lot of data. So what does the research say?

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17 new studies looking at kids in six countries attack this question from different angles, and they appeared in a special issue of the Journal of Child Development out this fall. Joining me now are two of the researchers involved, Dr. Anna Johnson, professor of psychology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., who helped compile this special issue,

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