Sandy Chappell
@SandyChatterbox
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Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Specialist in #DevLangDis and Speech Sound Disorders Elklan Tutor
North Yorkshire
Joined January 2016
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This week Australia took the brave step to reverse the uncontrolled experiment of giving children smartphones & access to social media filled with porn, violence & extremism. We can & must do more to protect childhood & I for one will be willing them on.
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āIt was evenly paced, so still. It was asking you to sit quiet & listen. Theyāre qualities that children need & donāt get any more.ā šÆ Good attention & listening skills are vital for all learning. Children cannot learn these skills using face-paced digital devices.
'It was demanding of your attention and it was giving you attention' Author Frank Cottrell-Boyce spoke to #BBCBreakfast about the classic children's TV programme 'Jackanory' which was first broadcast 60 years ago - but can you recognise these famous faces who took part in the
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āStudents with no screen time in school perform best.ā @HP4SaferScreens @safe_screens
We need to be honest about the role of screens in schools. The evidence is becoming too strong to ignore. When daily screen time rises, achievement falls. The latest PISA data show a clear, consistent decline in scores as screen exposure increases. Students with no screen time in
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We saw significant increases in children's screen time during the pandemic inc. in early years. Excessive use of screens in young children is associated with language delay & a 7.7 fold increased risk of ADHD in 5yo's using screens for more than 2hrs a day https://t.co/7xbJTTyH1E
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Totally predictable & predicted. And we must remember the serious & long-term harms of these developmental delays on childrenās future academic achievement, mental health & life chances. They donāt simply ābounce backā.
šØUK STUDY LINKS COVID LOCKDOWNS TO DEVELOPMENTAL HARMS IN BABIES A new study of 258k babies and toddlers in Scotland provides evidence of the damaging impact of successive lockdowns and restrictions on children's development, with up to a 6.6 percentage point increase in the
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ā”ļøāI think EdTech was peddled as a great thing, and now we are far too late realising it is actually an isolating, damaging force for childrenās learning and wellbeing.ā
Weāve written to @bphillipsonMP about serious child safeguarding & health concerns linked to school-issued 1:1 devices. Including the use of supposedly-filtered devices to access and share inappropriate content such as pornography, beheadings and shootings https://t.co/6mfyyp2BsP
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Health professionals have added their voices to the growing chorus of parents, teachers, children, and experts calling on the government to stop sitting on its hands and finally get smartphones out of schools. Labour needs to get a grip.
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The PM is wrong to call a phone ban in schools āunnecessaryā & wrong to say āthe reality of statistics is that the vast majority of schools already ban smartphones.ā They donāt. DfEās own data contradicts this. Labour must back our amendment to ban smartphones in schools.
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There is more and more evidence that putting computers and tablets on students' desks (1:1 devices) was a terrible mistake. I agree with @AdamMGrant that "it's time to remove laptops [and tablets] from classrooms."
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distractedāwriting enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
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It's National Baby Week 2025! This week spend time communicating with your baby, with #1 Get to Know You! š¶šØāš¼ Need some ideas to do at home with your family? Check out 50 Things to Do Before You're Fiveš https://t.co/fx8CrobK4N
#NationalBabyWeek #GetToKnowYou
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I feel like a broken record. I agree with Bridget Phillipson, but her actions do not match her words. She can do more to stop this, but is failing to do so. Get smartphones out of schools & children off social media.
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Other products carrying potential harm to children are regulated. Why not addictive smartphones?
Weāve sleepwalked into a world where kids are addicted to screens. In most other areas we apply the precautionary principle to protect children. Yet weāve handed them devices exposing them to porn, self-harm & bullying. Govt must ban phones in schools & get kids off social media
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Weāve sleepwalked into a world where kids are addicted to screens. In most other areas we apply the precautionary principle to protect children. Yet weāve handed them devices exposing them to porn, self-harm & bullying. Govt must ban phones in schools & get kids off social media
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āA global study found that the more students use tech in schools, the worse their results.ā āThere is simply no independent evidence for the effectiveness of these tools ā¦ what is happening is weāre experimenting on childrenā
How awkward... ā...almost all the research that has found benefits to introducing tech in classrooms is funded by the ed-tech industry, and most large-scale independent research has found that screen time gets in the way of achievement.ā @DanielKebedeNEU
https://t.co/mGvCR8Z222
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The brilliant @SandyChatterbox speaking from her decades of experience as a speech and language therapist about the impacts of screens on childhood development. This weekās essay from HRH The Princess of Wales is completely spot onšÆ @HP4SaferScreens #safeguardingchildren
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The govāt have argued that there is not enough evidence of the harms of smartphones. We @HP4SaferScreens presented them with a briefing document full of evidence in Nov ā24 & there is now so much more. They must start putting children first.
This Labour Govt has FAILED to protect kids from smartphones. They whipped MPs to vote against school phone bans, gutted the Safer Phones Bill ā yet are happy to mandate smartphones for 13yoās. Whose interests are they really working for? Itās not childrenās, parents or families
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"The Princess has put her finger on one of the most important issues of our age. Smartphones are transforming the nature of childhood, leaving our children lonely, anxious & lacking in skills of communication & concentration that are vital for successful adult life."
āļø 'Parents are struggling to raise their families in the midst of the most disruptive technological revolution in history' | Writes @miriam_cates Read the column ā¬ļø https://t.co/ZRpX5R7UWp
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Leaving aside concerns about facilitating a social credit system, as seen in China, this must be resisted on the simple ground that it is almost criminally blind to parent and teacher opinion on smartphones and devices. It would mandate smartphone ownership for kids at just the
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As an early yearsā speech and language therapist, I am grateful to the Princess of Wales for highlighting this issue. I see the harms of screens on our youngest children in my clinic every day.
Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales has written an essay titled 'The Power of Human Connection in a Distracted World'. In collaboration with @robertwaldinger. https://t.co/D2eidvCdxu
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Parents are increasingly concerned about the rapid adoption of pupil facing 1:1 devices & EdTech platforms in schools. Studies show use of digital devices has a negative impact on childrenās academic progress. We must pause & properly evaluate EdTech https://t.co/SXzMr0iUaQ
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Background: The impact of prolonged digital device exposure on physical and mental health in children has been widely investigated by the scientific community. Additionally, the lockdown periods due...
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