Screen media and autism.
Children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are often reported to spend a lot of time engaged in screen based media, such as TV, computers and video games. But there are not a lot of research done in investigating this issue. Now Mazurek and colleagues have investigated this in the sample of the NAtional Longitudal Transition Study – 2. This study confirms the general perception that individuals with ASD spend more time using non-social screen media than others.