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The study was conducted at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto by Meta van den Heuvel and colleagues under principal investigator Dr. Catherine Birken. It was presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in 2017 and published in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics in 2019.

894 children were enrolled through the TARGet Kids! primary-care research network between 2011 and 2015. Parents reported daily handheld screen time on phones, tablets, and electronic games. TV was not included. Expressive speech was screened using the validated Infant Toddler Checklist. A score below the 10th percentile flagged risk of delay.

20% of children averaged 28 minutes of daily screen time at their 18-month check-up. The adjusted odds ratio for expressive speech delay was 1.49 per additional 30 minutes (95% confidence interval: 1.02 to 2.16). No association was found with gestures, eye contact, or body language. Only spoken words were affected.

The study is correlational. It cannot prove screens cause delays. Reverse causation is possible: children with existing language delays may be given more screen time. Content wasn’t analyzed. Later research, including 2023 studies in JAMA Pediatrics, suggests the real issue is that screens replace back-and-forth conversation between parent and child, which is the single most important factor in language development.

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