Screen Time & Young Children

Screen Time & Young Children Name Institutional Affiliation Screen Time & Young Children Literature Review The section of literature review discusses and examines the effect of screen time on young children through their stages of development. Among the various literature that talk about the effect of television, was the most prevalent one; it majorly dwelled on the amount of effects on cognitive skills and child language. In the discussion, articles that talk about cognitive skills are most likely to discuss the effect of screen time on language skills. From a holistic perspective, a child’s language skills are closely related to their cognitive skills (Lauricella, 2015). For instance, you will find that most children under the age of three years will develop skills that recognize; how completing a cognitive task would need language skills and how usage of language skills would need cognitive skills. Here, articles that discuss the effect that television time and other media have on young children. Media Effects on Cognitive and Language Development The collection of data with reference to language development was challenging, since it had the largest search outcome as well as many different methods of data collection. In this respect, the study yields various opinions regarding the development of young children in terms of language and cognitive skills. Therefore, the discussions made in this section are comprehensive in the sense that a set of research-based guidelines on child exposure to screen time are provided to educators and parents. One study talked about the benefits screen time on children if two major factors were considered. The article is majorly concerned about context and content of the media availed to young children. The scholars indicated that screen time exposure may provide a learning opportunity if the content gives contingent responses and becomes interactive. From a different perspective, the article highlights that caregivers and parents are able to apply positive experiences gained from screen time on the actual life of child. A different article, in a longitudinal and cross-sectional study of 200 Hispanic infants and toddlers, indicates that adult directed programming took an average of 1.29 hours while child-directed being 2.09 hours (Xu & Rissel, 2015). The amount of child-directed screen time is directly proportional to child’s age. In terms of the type of technology involved, this article found out that television was the most used with cell phones coming second. Scholar 1 gave a report that young children used cells phones for a minimum of 30 minutes in a day; 28% of infants and 35% of toddlers (Houghton et al., 2015). The longitudinal study using stages questionnaire and ages have resulted to various revelations regarding infants and toddlers. Those that had more than 2 hour television exposure suffered delays in their language development as compared to those that had less than 2 hours exposure to television on a daily basis, whereby the scores were based on typical range of infants and toddlers. Scholar 1 found that most children exposed to more television are diagnosed with a 15 to 48 months language delay. The study conducted a study on 56 children. In this study, findings ind...