Why are little kids getting so much screen time that they need a detox? Still, the research—as well as dire warnings, issued by everyone from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry to ...

A pioneering interdisciplinary study has shown that how young children play a simple iPad game could support early identification of autism.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At just 3 years old, Abel Robles was already exploring technology — tinkering with ScratchJr, a kids' programming app. By age 6, he was taking robotics ...

Concrete walls, barren landscapes, and cardboard boxes. All of that sounds rather bleak, for us adults. But no matter the ...

Once upon a time, children fought for control of the remote to the sole family television. Now the choice of screen-based content available to kids seems endless. There are computers, tablets, phones ...

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At Nemours Children's Health, Scott Shaw helps the health system's young patients play games. He's doing a lot more than just letting them have fun. Health IT isn't all fun and games. Until it is.

A recent study says 70 percent of parents surveyed let kids play with iPads. April 1, 2013 — -- Liana Vilanova can't even sit up yet, but her father is already cheering his 2-month-old's digital ...

"In this romp through the changing landscape of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American toys, games, hobbies, and amusements, senior historian of technology Carroll Pursell poses a simple but ...

The combination of kids and too much screen time comes with no shortage of worries: Cognitive delays, executive functioning issues, and higher rates of depression, anxiety, and insomnia are all ...