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- A study examining the impact of passive video and TV watching on autism in children aged 2-5 involved 3227 kids over three years, making it the largest and longest of its kind.
- Longer screen time was linked to improvements in expressive language but hindered complex language comprehension, with low TV users improving their comprehension 1.4 times faster than high TV users.
- No significant effects of screen time were found on sociability, cognition, or health in the children studied.
Article Abstract
The effect of passive video and television watching duration on 2- to 5-year-old children with autism was investigated in the largest and the longest observational study to date. Parents assessed the development of 3227 children quarterly for three years. Longer video and television watching were associated with better development of expressive language but significantly impeded development of complex language comprehension. On an annualized basis, low TV users (low quartile: 40 min or less of videos and television per day) improved their language comprehension 1.4 times faster than high TV users (high quartile: 2 h or more of videos and television per day). This difference was statistically significant. At the same time, high TV users improved their expressive language 1.3 times faster than low TV users. This difference was not statistically significant. No effect of video and television watching duration on sociability, cognition, or health was detected.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8067341 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040423 | DOI Listing |
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