In March 2020 researchers from Canada and the USA published their review of the medical scientific literature to assess the association between duration of screen time and background television, educational … Read more
Children who spend more time watching television appear to achieve a lower skill level in language, whilst adolescents who spend a longer time watching television or playing video games tend to achieve a lower overall academic performance
In September 2019 researchers from Spain, Paraguay and Chile published their review of the medical scientific literature to assess the association between screen media use and academic performance in children … Read more
All parents should be encouraged to talk more to their child during the first year of life to help with language development
In February 2020 researchers from Australia published the results of their study to assess the number of words children hear and the number of vocal sounds they produced in their … Read more
Parents who read 1 picture book with their child every day exposes them to an estimated 78,000 words each a year, which over 5 years means that they hear an estimated 1.4 million more words than children who are never read to
In June 2019 researchers from the USA and Turkey published the results of their study to assess whether reading books to children in their first 5 years of life would … Read more