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Tech Thursday: 17% of Kids Under Age 8 Use a Mobile Device Every Day
January 6, 2014
Nearly one in five children under age 8 uses a mobile device every day. Read More »
There’s an App for That: A Speech Language Therapist’s Perspective
January 6, 2014
Recently, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, an organization which studies children's media, reported that "by 2010, two-thirds of children ages 4 to 7 had used an iPhone." Here's another one -- Warren Buckleitner of The New York Times blog Gadgetwise reports that "more than 40,000 kids' games are available on iTunes, plus thousands more on Google Play." Read More »
Baby’s Gaze May Signal Autism, a Study Finds
January 6, 2014
When and how long a baby looks at other people’s eyes offers the earliest behavioral sign to date of whether a child is likely to develop autism, scientists are reporting. Read More »
Video Games Make Your Brain Bigger, Study Says
January 6, 2014
Those addictive video games that keep players glued to the screen may actually do the brain some good — or one of them does, anyway. A new study from the journal Molecular Psychiatry digs into the effect of video game play on the volume of the brain’s gray matter — the tissue responsible for muscle control, memory, language and sensory perception. Read More »