DVD Tidak Membantu Tingkat Kecerdikan Bayi, Hasil Kajian ASHA

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Laporan dari Yahoo! Health tentang hasil kajian The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) yang mendapati pendedahan bayi berusia antara 8 - 16 bulan kepada bahan-bahan DVD tidak membantu dalam menghasilkan bayi yang lebih cerdik. Malahan dari kajian tersebut di dapati bayi yang didedahkan kepada DVD mempelajari 6 - 8 perkataan lebih kurang berbanding bayi yang tidak menontonnya.

Sementara pendedahan kepada bayi berusia 17 - 24 bulan tidak menunjukkan sebarang kesan negatif mahupun positif.

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DVDs Don't Produce Brainy Babies
Source: Yahoo! Health

TUESDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) -- DVDs and videos that claim to help boost infants' ability to learn new words may actually hinder their language development, a new study says.

For every hour a day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants between 8 and 16 months old understood an average of six to eight fewer words than infants who didn't watch them. The baby DVDs/videos had no positive or negative effect on the vocabulary of toddlers ages 17 to 24 months.

The study, which included more than 1,000 families with infants or toddlers, was published Tuesday in the Journal of Pediatrics.

"The most important fact to come from this study is, there is no clear evidence of a benefit coming from baby DVDs and videos, and there is some suggestion of harm," lead author Frederick Zimmerman, an associate professor of health services at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute, said in a prepared statement. "The bottom line is, the more a child watches baby DVDs and videos, the bigger the effect. The amount of viewing does matter."

"The results surprised us, but they make sense," added study co-author Andrew Meltzoff, co-director of the University of Washington's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, in a prepared statement.

"There are only a fixed number of hours that young babies are awake and alert. If the 'alert time' is spent in front of DVDs and TV instead of with people speaking in 'parentese' -- that melodic speech we use with little ones -- the babies are not getting the same linguistic experience," Meltzoff said.

"Parents and caretakers are the baby's first and best teachers," he noted. "They instinctively adjust their speech, eye gaze and social signals to support language acquisition. Watching attention-getting DVDs and TV may not be an even swap for warm social human interaction at a very young age."

While the study doesn't offer definitive proof that baby DVDs/videos are harmful, it's best to be safe and limit the amount of time infants watch them, Zimmerman said. He and his colleagues said more research is needed to examine the long-term effects of baby DVDs/videos on children's cognitive development.

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The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association offers tips for parents on encouraging children's speech and language development.

my-alja

ermmm....ramai gak me dgr, mak2 yg ngaku anak dapat new vocabs dr tv prog....cemana tu?

frankly, me rasa kecerdikkan tu bergtg gak pd jenis2 budak, ikut kelebihan dia dlm learning style...ada yg auditory learner, memang bagusalah kot...

sha_n

emm..ni sha dpt dr yahoo health..kajian org barat la nih...
not sure la fact die...

my-alja

Originally posted by sha_n at 4-9-2007 05:16 PM
emm..ni sha dpt dr yahoo health..kajian org barat la nih...
not sure la fact die...

nie bagusnya dgn omputih nie...depa nie takde keje ..i wish i could be one of them, to have my own team and works with children...

pd saya, kecerdikkan dgn pengetahuan nia antara 2 isu berbeza....kalo kita ambik secara kasar, kecerdikkan tu drp byk vocabs yg dia tahu....rasanya jenis budak2 yg memory dia bagus dlm mengingati benda...rasanya mestilah dia yg pandai...

tapi kalo kecerdikkan tu dilihat drp segi manipulatif informations for their own use....lain plak kann...jadi nak pukul rata budak yg pandai cakap dan vocab tu byk tu lebih pandai dr budak lain...tak adil lah kot...kalao kata salah satu kepandaian, me setuju...

nie kena berbalik pd howard gardner punya study laaa kot...

ninoZ

i beg to differ
from experienced...my son byk belajo dr video/dvd masa dia kecik [masa tu guna babyschool n magic english]... n interactive CD
he even learn membaca dr semua tu..plus bantuan dari parent lah..
tapi ape pun..BALANCE penting..
jgn rely on dvd/video/cd rom semata

my-alja

a'ah..tgk sesama dgn anak2 tu..

jgnlah biarkan aje dia layan diri

linb

i think it depends on what we as parents do after our children watch DVD.. kena continue apa yg dia belajar tu..

for example, anak akak learns new vocab from educational dvd/vcd.. such as miniscule (small) and enormous (big).. so kita practice what they learn in the cd in real life.. bila borak2 dgn anak kita tu, guna kan new vocabs yg depa baru belajar tu.. di samping tu, akak pun kadang2 belajar new vocab gak..  mcm chartreuse   budak2 skang lagi advance dari mak nyee...