Lockdown babies slower to develop important social communication skills

Researchers stressed babies are resilient and inquisitive and will catch up now that ‘normal life’ has resumed. File picture

Lockdown babies learned to crawl sooner but they were slower to learn to wave bye-bye or to point at something new.

New research on a group of pandemic babies suggests they missed key developmental milestones for a range of important social communication skills because of a lack of social interaction due to lockdown, and because of face masks.