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'KIDS LEARNED MORE WORDS DURING LOCKDOWN COMPARED TO BEFORE THE PANDEMIC'
Studies have shown that while children were exposed to more screen time during
lockdown than before, overall they gained more words than expected, says Dr
Miriam Stoppard
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One by one, the long-term effects of Covid are revealing themselves.
Some of them are physical, like a distorted sense of smell, and some are mental,
such as being unable to concentrate.
One of the more serious may affect our children, particularly young children,
who suffered isolation during the lockdowns.
Wanting to investigate the impact of isolation, researchers from 13 countries,
including a psychologist from Warwick University, studied 2,200 infants and
toddlers between eight and 36 months of age.
One project led by the University of Oslo, Norway, looked at language
development, while another, uniting centres in Germany, the Netherlands and
Switzerland, looked at screen time.
Parents also completed a vocabulary checklist to track the number of words their
child understood (
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In March 2020, as the lockdown was imposed, parents from 13 countries were asked
to fill in a questionnaire about their child, then they were contacted again as
lockdown ended.
They were asked what activities they did with their child during lockdown, how
much screen time their child had both before and during that period, their own
screen time and their attitudes to a child’s screen time.
Parents also completed a vocabulary checklist to track the number of words their
child understood and/or said at the beginning and again at the end of lockdown.
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The studies found that children who were read to more frequently during lockdown
learned more words, relative to their peers who were read to less.
Increased screen time resulted in children saying fewer words, relative to their
peers with less screen time.
Importantly, while children were exposed to more screen time during lockdown
than before, overall they gained more words than expected.
Increased screen time resulted in children saying fewer words, relative to their
peers with less screen time (
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Professor Nivedita Mani, of the University of Göttingen in Germany, says: “Many
caregivers were in the novel situation of caring for and entertaining their
young infants at home all day without recourse to other activities and in
addition to their other responsibilities.
“Allowing your child increased screen time is an understandable solution to an
unprecedented situation, in which caregivers were juggling multiple
responsibilities – meetings at work or chores that require concentration,
together with a small child who needs entertaining.
“We’ve all done it during lockdown.”
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to screen time, children learned more words during the lockdown period from
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