They surveyed hundreds of families about their screen use and their young children’s language abilities, and found that no form of screen use had a positive effect on language skills. Time spent ...
Methods: Mothers reported the language skills of 421 children (M age = 38.18 months; SD = 5.73) by the Estonian CDI-III, and the screen use of children, mothers, and fathers by the Screen Time ...
and their children’s language skills. The findings, published in the Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, found that parents who use screens a lot also have children who use screens a lot and ...
So what effect does this have on children's developing brains, especially critical language skills? To understand this, scientists in Estonia surveyed the parents of more than 400 children about ...
Peer-reviewed: This work was reviewed and scrutinised by relevant independent experts. No form of screen use has a positive effect on language skills in children, according to Estonian researchers.