Excessive screen time in young children links to Virtual Autism Spectrum Disorder, affecting social communication and behaviour Young children who spend more than four hours a day on screens, such ...

Early and Prolonged Screen Time Damages Brain Development Studies suggest that children under two should not be exposed to screens at all, and those between two and five years old should have no ...

If your children are spending too much time on screens, it can cause emotional and behavioral problems and lead to more screen use, according to a new meta-analysis.

A chicken-or-egg question Some critics raise the possibility of reverse causality—i.e., that autism itself is the cause of social disengagement and heavy screen use rather than the other way around.

The longer the screen time the worse off they were, with children who spend longer than 2.5 hours a day even more likely to experience language and behaviour problems.

Virtual autism can be reversed through reducing screen time and encouraging person-to-person interaction, healthy brain development through balanced use of technology, and supervision from parents.

They also reported that average screen time for two-year-olds was 2.4 hours a day, and 3.6 hours a day for three-year-olds. (By five years, the average had dropped to 1.6 daily hours.) ...

By highlighting predictable visual stimuli as a potential behavioral marker, the study opens new avenues for exploring predictive processing mechanisms in children with ASD and emphasizes the need for ...

It would be wrong to claim I have consistent feelings about this. I do worry about his screen time, but mostly I am OK with it - in a way my husband definitely isn't. Partly this is down to my own ...

A screening tool based on parental responses to a 30-item screen shows excellent accuracy in identifying children with autism at a very early age.