Media Use by Infants and Toddlers: A Potential for Play

Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Weber, Deborah S ^a  

^a Fisher Price Child Research Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Development; Learning; Media; Parent child interactions; Play; Television; Videos

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920500249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195304381.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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