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Five-year-olds who consume a lot of digital media in English have poorer language skills in Swedish. This is shown in new research from LiU.

The recent surge in availability of digital media has made media accessible even to very young children. However, we know very little of the effects of digital media on infants social and cognitive development.

At the Child and Infant Lab we study several aspects of children's memory and social abilities. Some of these are attention, imitation, thinking and language.

A research project at Linköping University has shown that children whose parents often use digital media develop language more slowly than others.