Screen time is interfering with early language experience and could be depriving an average three-year-old of more than 1100 adult words a day, a new Australian study shows.
More time on screens means less parent-child interaction and the study showed this could also cause these toddlers to miss 840 vocalisations and 194 conversations a day.
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