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Television blamed for switching babies off speech

One in five children are slow learning to speak because they are being drowned out by television, according to a leading speech therapist.

A study by Dr Sally Ward, considered one of Britain's foremost experts on language development in children, revealed that infants of eight months did not know their names, as would normally be expected at that age. They could not identify or respond to everyday words like "juice" or "bricks" because television had killed conversation in their homes.

The study of 1,000 babies identified families who had as many as two televisions on in the house at the one time with no one speaking to the baby. According to Dr Ward, children were only spoken to regularly ...

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