It usually starts quietly. A phone during meals. A cartoon to stop a meltdown. A screen handed over just to get through the day. And then, one day, something feels off. Your child doesn’t respond when ...

The health ministry is intensifying its efforts to address the impact of excessive screen time on children’s development. This growing concern was highlighted by a discussion on virtual autism at a ...

Does spending excessive time on electronic screens—television, tablets, smart phones, computers—affect cognitive and language development in early childhood? With the prevalence of autism increasing ...

Cause of virtual autism? A chicken-or-egg question Some critics raise the possibility of reverse causality—i.e., that autism itself is the cause of social disengagement and heavy screen use rather ...