We always argue at home as to whether the tv should be off or on while the baby is around. I believe firmly that the tv should be limited to one half hour a day --- the rest of the day it is OFF. My husband is an avid tv watcher. I can just imagine what goes on here when I am out running errands. The two of them watch snowboarding videos and stuff like that.
Anyways, I recently discovered a paper written by Michael Waldman at Cornell University. It's entitled "Does Television Cause Autism?" I was reading it for my own information and realized that the author also lumps computer viewing into his studies. He feels that computers can be used to view movies, DVDs and also to play games so it is like a television in so many ways.
The author feels that autism is on the rise in the United States due to many factors, and one of them is the number of cable tv subscribers in the country. If you are interested in reading this article, please visit:
http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/Waldman/AUTISM-WALDMAN-NICHOLSON-ADILOV.pdf
Anastasia Rioux
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