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The impact of the mobile phone

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The signs of things going wrong in society are usually first evident in small children.
June O'Sullivan is chief executive of the London Early Years Foundation. Picture: LEYF
June O'Sullivan is chief executive of the London Early Years Foundation. Picture: LEYF

The widespread dependence on Smartphones is showing its negative impact on our children. It’s certainly evident in the amount of language delay we see and the increase in the numbers of children arriving in their prams clutching their parents’ phones or learning to speak with an American YouTube accent. Two recent reports caught my eye and then depressed me.

A report from the Journal of the American Medical Association (Jama) Pediatrics supports what we are seeing sadly. The research was conducted across 220 Australian families using advanced speech recognition technology to capture young children’s screen time and home language environment for an average of 16 hours per day. 

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