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Article

Watching Videos and Television Is Related to a Lower Development of Complex Language Comprehension in Young Children with Autism

by
Elisabeth Fridberg
1,2,
Edward Khokhlovich
3 and
Andrey Vyshedskiy
1,2,*
1
Biology Department, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
2
ImagiRation, Boston, MA 02135, USA
3
Independent Researcher, Newton, MA 02459, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Healthcare 2021, 9(4), 423; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040423
Submission received: 2 February 2021 / Revised: 16 March 2021 / Accepted: 25 March 2021 / Published: 6 April 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Imagination in Autism)
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Abstract

The effect of passive video and television watching duration on 2- to 5-year-old children with autism was investigated in the largest and the longest observational study to date. Parents assessed the development of 3227 children quarterly for three years. Longer video and television watching were associated with better development of expressive language but significantly impeded development of complex language comprehension. On an annualized basis, low TV users (low quartile: 40 min or less of videos and television per day) improved their language comprehension 1.4 times faster than high TV users (high quartile: 2 h or more of videos and television per day). This difference was statistically significant. At the same time, high TV users improved their expressive language 1.3 times faster than low TV users. This difference was not statistically significant. No effect of video and television watching duration on sociability, cognition, or health was detected.
Keywords: autism; ASD; language delay; screen time; television time; receptive language; language comprehension autism; ASD; language delay; screen time; television time; receptive language; language comprehension

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Fridberg, E.; Khokhlovich, E.; Vyshedskiy, A. Watching Videos and Television Is Related to a Lower Development of Complex Language Comprehension in Young Children with Autism. Healthcare 2021, 9, 423. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040423

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Fridberg E, Khokhlovich E, Vyshedskiy A. Watching Videos and Television Is Related to a Lower Development of Complex Language Comprehension in Young Children with Autism. Healthcare. 2021; 9(4):423. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040423

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Fridberg, Elisabeth, Edward Khokhlovich, and Andrey Vyshedskiy. 2021. "Watching Videos and Television Is Related to a Lower Development of Complex Language Comprehension in Young Children with Autism" Healthcare 9, no. 4: 423. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040423

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Fridberg, E., Khokhlovich, E., & Vyshedskiy, A. (2021). Watching Videos and Television Is Related to a Lower Development of Complex Language Comprehension in Young Children with Autism. Healthcare, 9(4), 423. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040423

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