Claim: Due to the supposedly harmful effects of pandemic lockdowns and masking, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  lowered its milestone standards for child speech development, stipulating that children should be expected to have a roughly 50-word vocabulary by 30 months of age instead of 24 months of age.
Fact-check: Did CDC Lower Speech Milestones for Kids Due to Effects of Masking, Lockdowns?
Verdict: mostly false
Organisation: Snopes
Author: Nur Ibrahim
Date published: 2022-03-05T08:30:15