Could your child’s cellphone be hurting their reading? UCLA study raises new concerns
- Children who own cellphones score lower on reading comprehension tests than classmates without phones — even if they never bring the devices to school, according to a new UCLA study.
- Researchers found that simply owning a cellphone was linked to poorer reading scores among elementary school students, raising fresh questions about whether kids should have smartphones at such a young age.
- The study, published in the journal Behavioral Sciences, followed third- and sixth-grade students from public schools in California's Antelope Valley and Coptic Church schools in Los Angeles County.
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- Children who own cellphones score lower on reading comprehension tests than classmates without phones — even if they never bring the devices to school, according to a new UCLA study.
- Researchers found that simply owning a cellphone was linked to poorer reading scores among elementary school students, raising fresh questions about whether kids should have smartphones at such a young age.
- The study, published in the journal Behavioral Sciences, followed third- and sixth-grade students from public schools in California's Antelope Valley and Coptic Church schools in Los Angeles County.
Sources: The Independent