02/27/2020
As a clinician, I’m constantly having conversations with families regarding how they can decrease exposure to technology in an effort to help their child develop language and social skills. What strategies are you implementing?
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𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 (𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲!).
According to a study by Microsoft, the average human being now has an attention span of seven seconds. This is a sharp decrease from the average attention span of 12 seconds in the year 2000. More shocking, perhaps, is the fact that research from Jampp found that human attention span decreases by a whopping 88 percent every year. In fact, scientists reckon we now have shorter attention spans than goldfish, who are able to focus on a task or object for 9 seconds.
Human beings are very, very forgetful…25% of teens forget major details