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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s going to get worse. I am a school psychologist and when I look at the younger siblings of students at the school I am at really worried about how many if them are in strollers staring at screens. Phones and tablets are an effective and cheap babysitter. It’s a low income school where kids don’t have the opportunity to get signed up for activities where they interact.

If there are kids on the spectrum who are borderline with a lot of socialization with parents, siblings, friends, quality pre-schools, attending story times, etc. they might not ever have enough symptoms to have issues or get diagnosed. Now add COVID lock down to that mix where kids didn’t socialize at all for a year not even with cousins. We are seeing kids who are coming in to K with lower language and socialization skills across the board. It’s really, really concerning. [/quote]

I do NOT think though that you can screen time your way into autism. you can screen time your way into poor socialization, but not into the fundamental brain differences, visible on MRIs, that exist in the brains of true autistic individuals from birth. [/quote]

Unfortunately, you can.  Brains are plastic.  Given the wrong stimulus in the earliest years, the effects may be permanent.[/quote]

+ 1,000,000 - No question. Jane Healy, Ph.D. documented the horrific consequences of screen time, and how it LITERALLY rewires a child’s brain. Shocking that intelligent people still believe this is debatable. Screens are never a good thing for young children. 
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It’s simply not the case that this has been proven (check the link below)
That’s not to say that screen time cannot impact a child’s development - of course it can. But autism must be understand as fundamentally separate from social emotional delays or it’s criteria (repetitive behavior/ sensory issues/ stims etc) become redundant. We must stop conflating autism with any social and emotional issue. Again partly a fault of the overly broad dsm, but this type of rumor is not helping

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/studies-investigating-link-between-screen-time-and-autism-must-improve/[/quote]

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