A study of over 300 children ages 3 to 6 found that they can determine a person’s emotions, even while they were wearing a face mask.

If there were a symbol or icon to represent the past year, it would definitely be the face mask. Indeed, face masks have become the banner of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is reasonable, as all ...

Experts suggest acclimating children to masks at home and drawing a connection to superheroes’ uniforms. By Perri Klass, M.D. When you go out these days, if you must go out in this time of ...

We ask Gov. Kathy Hochul, who mandated masks for children age 2 and up, to consider preschoolers’ social and emotional development in addition to their physical health.

Some parents have worried that children’s social, emotional and lingual development could be impaired by wearing masks during the Covid-19 pandemic. Here’s what parents should know.

When children ages 3 to 8 viewed faces covered with face masks, they didn’t show any impairment in classifying the expressions, according to a 2012 study published in the journal Cognition.

Scientists say that for most children, masks in school aren't a major obstacle to learning or socializing. Students in classrooms find other ways to connect.

In many countries, it's common for young children to wear masks against Covid-19 – but do the benefits of protection against the virus pose a risk to their long term development?

Three years is a long time for any of us, but it's a very long time in the lives of children. My 7-year-old son has now lived with the reality of the pandemic for 43 percent of his life. For my ...

And a 2020 study found children could ascertain accurate emotional information about adults even when they wore masks. Plus, blind children typically develop language in a similar trajectory to ...

The World Health Organization, which recommends that children 12 and older wear masks under the same circumstances that adults do, specifically advises against masking kids age 5 and younger.