Kids Who Use Smartphones Start Talking Later

There is increasing evidence that screening time may adversely affect the development of young children.

In a new study of nearly 900 children from 6 months to 2 years old, it is highly probable that people with long hours using handheld devices will be more likely to delay expressive utterances than children who do not use cell phones I understood. The risk representing speech delay increased by 49% every 30 minutes of screen time. This study was led by a pediatrician at a childhood hospital in Canada and was presented at the annual meeting of the pediatrics conference.

Researchers have revealed that screen time does not affect other communication technologies such as gestures, body language, social interactions. But the influence on the speech is worth studying

Dr. Jenny Radezky, Associate Professor of Pediatrics Department of Developmental Behavior at the University of Michigan, says: Committee member of the Board of Directors of the American Pediatric Communication and Media Council

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Radesky who did not participate in the study encouraged the American Academy of Pediatrics to recommend a number of reasons to use handheld devices or computers for children under 18 months and parents to participate directly in this critical moment Said. On their babies, the latest research shows that young people can not understand the relationship between the two-dimensional world on the screen and the surrounding three-dimensional world. "Even if they can imitate what they see on the screen, they can not always transfer it to the real world or other lives," she said. "Symbolic thinking and memory flexibility is beyond the scope of the application, no matter how interactive it is."

Even though parents exposed their babies to handheld equipment with educational content, screening time may not help them grow. Radesky also pointed out that screening time for young children may actually reflect social, cultural and economic factors that seem to relate to parents' sense of stress and care of their children. Further studies are needed to study how these things affect children's development, including language of expression.

"It is important to secure unplugged space and time so that families can set the boundaries of screen time," Radesky says. It may not be easy to provide children with face-to-face conversations in real time with children, but that seems to be important

Both articles have similar properties, such as facts, statistics, research. However, Markhan Heid's second article, "We need to talk about children and smartphones" also uses the direct experience of teenagers who experienced this problem. As a person who is adversely affected by the use of smartphones and social media, I am convinced that it will affect your mental health. The first reason to support this article is the influence of author Heid on the brain. The frontal cingulate cortex of your brain is a field that involves emotional processing and decision making. Research has linked media multitasking to ACC gray quality degradation. "More research shows that the decrease in ACC volume is related to depression and addiction," Heid's reason

Professor Twenge discovered that moderate smartphones and other high-tech applications could impair children's mental health. Children using social media everyday are 13% more likely to become depressed than children who are not using them. In her survey, teenagers abandoning their smartphones at one point and spending the most time on face-to-face interaction seemed to be the most healthy of their emotions. This is due to the nature of adolescent brain development. The anterior cingulate cortex mentioned above is related to the feature that helps young people develop empathy of humans, it is a factor of decision making and addiction. Dr. Francis Jensen, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of "Girls' Brain" explained as follows. "Compulsive management and sympathy and judgment of adolescents compared with adults has not been very developed.The brain continues to develop and teenagers and adolescents are more addictive