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How excessive screen time is delaying speech among Kenyan children

A woman uses a tablet to sooth her child. [Getty Images]

When little Amani from Bungoma, now three, first stretched out her arms for her father’s smartphone to replay a nursery rhyme video, her parents did not think they were doing anything harmful.

The videos kept her calm as her mother cooked, cleaned, or attended to guests.

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