It overstimulates the brain, since the speed of television is much faster in comparison to real life. This causes the child to become easily irritated and cause them to have extremely short attention spans. The damage usually becomes apparent around the age of 7 when the child has trouble focusing in school.
The autism comes out of the social interaction part of it. Even if your baby doesn't understand what you're saying or grasp the plot of a story, he or she will soak in your words and revel in your attention. These simple activities form the foundation for speech and thought, as well as emotional health. If your family enjoys this kind of programming, make conscious decisions about how to use it. Baby Einstein is marketed as a way to help introduce your child to a world of sights, sounds and experiences in the world around them.
Simply interacting with them with books, toys and your actual home full of objects would also seem to work just as well. This study is in keeping with the past research that has looked into the effectiveness of these DVDs and educational videos and found them wanting. In fact, in past studies, infants who watch educational DVDs actually learned fewer words and scored lower on certain cognitive tests than babies who did not watch the DVDs.
The claim always seemed too good to be true: park your infant in front of a video and, in no time, he or she will be talking and getting smarter than the neighbor's kid. In the latest study on the effects of popular videos such as the "Baby Einstein" and "Brainy Baby" series, researchers find that these products may be doing more harm than good.
And they may actually delay language development in toddlers. Led by Frederick Zimmerman and Dr.
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