Kevmorgan11's List: Misinformation debate

• First, children watch a lot of TV – on average four hours a day, which turns out to be more time than they spend in school each year.
 
• Second, having print and reading materials at home helps kids learn to read. And, the more they read, the better they read. Unfortunately, more than 30% of city children live in poor households which tend to have few books or reading materials.  One study found that poor families had, on average, less than one book per household.
 
• The third reason is that TVs must all have the technology to show captions and most programs and movies must have written transcripts. So, if you turn on your TV’s captioning feature, the words that are spoken – and many of the sounds as well – will appear in writing at the bottom of your screen.

broad review of past studies and publications in the field, that children with a moderate amount of age appropriate exposure to television (even from a very young age) actually have better literacy outcomes, with no detectable difference in emotional stability or overall development.

In spite of our cultural belief that children who watch TV will suffer academically, especially in literacy, a belief almost as old as television itself, the review done by Moses has found little solid evidence in the past 50 years of research to support any negative effects of moderate, age-appropriate television viewing whatsoever.

Children who are fluent at text messaging have better literacy skills than youngsters who do not use mobile phones, it was claimed today.

Scientists discovered that rather than destroying their use of English, texting improves children's ability to recognise rhymes and speech patterns.