It is bit hard to believe that DVD’s and videos can decelerate your child’s vocabulary development but study conducted by US researchers witnessed it. Thus, if your infant is crazy about watching videos and DVD’s it is time to put halt because amount of viewing matters.
The study reveals that original DVD’s can also slowdown the knack of your child to learn fresh words depending on your child’s age or can either show no effect at all. Since, parents and teachers are child’s best tutors via whom child automatically adjusts its speed , eye gaze and social signals to sustain language acquisition.
Dr Dimitri Christakis, a paediatrician at Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute who worked on the study quotes that parents frequently ask the value of watching such videos by their infants but she asserts that:
The evidence is mounting that they are of no value and may in fact be harmful
In addition, as per experts if this alert time is spent in viewing DVD’s and television instead of communicating with friends or family members, the babies don’t attain akin linguistic knowledge.
Via: Abc
