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TV-Watching Tots Miss Out on Vital Chat Tuesday, June 02, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> General Science   
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No wonder Americans call television the "boob tube". Infants vocalize less and hear fewer words from nearby adults when the TV is on, a new study of recorder-toting infants suggests. "There's no question that human voice and human words are what babies need," says Dimitri Christakis, a paediatrician at the University of Washington in Seattle, who led the study. "The data are not yet conclusive about the fact that television is harmful, but they continue to mount." (source: newscientist.com)
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