COVID babies: 'We do see more children needing extra help'

Children who were born around the time of the first COVID-19 lockdown 'seem to need extra help', a nursery owner has said.Any child born then or the previous year are now children with some of them starting school.Reporter Josh Crosbie has been finding out if there's been any developmental differences with this cohort of children."We found a lot of children coming in with separation anxiety," she said.

"There's a lot of changes that you wouldn't know whether it's environmental changes or whether it's changes that we're just more aware of or whether it is the effects of the shutdown.""We do see a lot more children coming through the doors now that would have other issues," she said. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Head of Paediatrics Professor Jonathan Hourihane outlined some of its key findings.

"Some children had lower vocabulary than groups born before the pandemic - but we're hoping that they improve over time," he added.

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