Is your baby receiving too much screen time? Study associates common practice with developmental delays

By the age of two years old, children who experienced four or more hours of screen time were almost five times more likely to experience delays in communication compared to individuals with under one daily hour of screen time. — Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

STATEN ISLAND: Babies exposed to greater levels of screen time suffer developmental delays in their first years, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association of Pediatrics.

Researchers followed 7,097 mother-child pairs and tested the impact of one-year-olds spending time on iPads, tablets and other forms of technology on communication and problem-solving skills by the time they reached two to four years old.