It doesn’t make a mess, fits neatly into your handbag and provides endless hours of entertainment, so who hasn’t whipped out an iphone to garner a moment’s peace from their toddler?
But next time your child needs distracting it might be worth keeping in mind the alarming results of a new study that claims non-educational iphone play is linked to slower speech.
The research, which was carried out at the Cohen Children’s Medical Centre in New York, found that children between the ages of 0-3 years old who played non-educational games on touch-screen devices had slower verbal development. Full article
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