The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States has decreased its requirements for early speech development, raising concerns about how mental progress is monitored in children. At 15 and 30 months, the CDC added two additional child development milestones. Children as young as 24 months were were expected to know roughly 50 words. However, the CDC increased the time limit to 30 months in the current update, decreasing the established threshold of speech development. The CDC linked to data released by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in the update, which affected the organization’s decision to change the milestones. According to the AAP study’s abstract, “using the criteria specified by the AAP working group and adding milestones for the 15- and 30-month health supervision visits resulted in a 26.4 percent reduction and a 40.9 percent replacement … Continue reading CDC Lowers Speech Development Standards Due To Their Own Ignorant Policy.