Television might delay language development in children, Seattle researchers find

[Francis Hult]

Cleveland.com

 

Television might delay language development in children, Seattle researchers find

 

A new study indicates that television may reduce speech in the home and, in turn, could hinder a young child's language development. 

 

Researchers at Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute attached small, business-card-size devices to 329 children from 2 months to 4 years old on random days each month during a two-year period to capture everything a child heard and said. They found that while the average adult speaks about 1,000 words an hour, that number goes down by 25 percent to 50 percent when a television set is on. 

 

Full story:

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2009/07/television_might_delay_languag.html

_______________________________________________
Edling mailing list
Edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu
https://lists.sis.utsa.edu/mailman/listinfo/edling
List Manager: Francis M. Hult