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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, your rant about the "cause" is a decade too early. Current college students were not "raised on tik tok" or computers. They were watching Little Einsteins on DVD and that was considered "screen time." They didn't have ipads and most of their parents were just getting the first very expensive smart phones themselves. These kids didn't get them until about 8th grade unless they were super wealthy.

So they may not have been interested in your lecture, but the reason isn't that they had tik tok when they were 8 because they didn't.

Also, some kids with ASD wear semi noise canceling headphones as an accommodation to help them hear your lecture better and drown out the gum chewing, pencil tapping, loud breathing sounds that distract them to degrees not common among others. So unless you could hear the kids' music or something, you should assume it is an accommodation that is helping not hindering. My DS is never without headphones and no one realizes that he needs them (he wants it that way).[/quote]

DP.  I think you're underestimating how little it takes to wreck the mind/attention span.  If the now-college students only got phones/iPads a few years ago (realistically closer to 10+ years ago), then Tiktok could easily destroy the attention span in that short time period.

Kindergartners with phones/iPads are another story.  But they aren't in college yet (or maybe never).[/quote]

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