Article on modern gadgets and youth
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Negative effects of excessive gadget use. Excessive use of gadgets such as mobile phones, tablets, and computer desktops can cause physical and mental damage to children. According to a study, a child will likely to become overweight and develop seizure and vision problems when they spend too much time using gadgets.
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Many researchers have studied that children spend average of their
time on different gadgets like telephone, radio, TV, games, Xbox, iPod
and stereo system. Kids use gadgets for various purposes like playing
games, watching videos, listening songs, chatting with their friends,
browsing different websites. They spend most of their time in these
activities and don’t pay attention to their posture, screen brightness,
and screen distance from their eyes which ultimately affect their vision
and health.
The Positive Impact of Gadget Use
Motor skills are the skills which are linked with muscles of small
movements like lips, fingers, wrists, tongue and toes. So when toddlers
play games on tablet or any other gadgets their fingers and hands get a
workout. This is such a healthy exercise for growing children. Using
modern keyboards and keypads or other handheld devices they have no
risk of any injury or any kind of threat as compared to playing outside.
As a result, they know better use of their hands and fingers and become
very efficient in it in short time.
Cognitive skills are the ability to process information, reasoning,
remembering and relating objects with other objects. These skills are
directly related to memory, and language. Now a day’s technology
helps faster and better development of cognitive skills in kids. The
games which they use to play before whether it’s a puzzle or scribbling
on drawing books everything now can be done on electronic devices.
Negative Effects of Gadgets Use
In order to understand the speech or language delay in children first
we understand the difference between the speech and language. Speech
refers to verbal form of communication used by humans, and language
refers to the whole system of communication spoken or written,
verbal and nonverbal. A child with a language delay might pronounce
words well but only be able to put two words together. A child with
a speech delay might use words and phrases to express ideas but be
difficult to understand. Speech delay, also known as alalia, these two
problems often overlaps. Many researchers have studied this and also
concluded many theories about it. By using s screening tool, researchers
studied that the more time children spends on smart phones, tablets
and electronic games and other handheld devices the more likely the
child have delays in expressive speech. Children will learn to talk and
communicate through interactions with others. This is the way how
they will learn to communicate well if they r not communicating they
are not learning. Every one minute that your child is spending on the
screen is one minute fewer that he could speak or learn with others.
Screen time is the time you child is spending on screen whether it’s TV
or any other gadget. Screen time takes away the time of child which he
can spend by talking and communicating with other people.