Monday, May 11, 2015

Concerns About Very Young Children Using Technology

A lot of people express concern about the use of technology by children of various ages and many studies have been done based on those concerns. Neil Augenstein recently reported for WTOP on a survey commissioned by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association  which showed that human interaction is too important to early communication development for a child to be spending a lot of time on devices.

“The most rapid period of brain development takes place before age 3,” says Judith Page, president of ASHA. “The primary way young children learn is through verbal communication that technology simply cannot duplicate.”

The article indicates that, in spite of what appears to be significant concern about both the time spent using devices and the hazards of personal audio devices to hearing, there aren't enough limits being put on the use of such devices.