2024-04-21 03:45:15
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Yarone, 26 months, hums but does not speak. Or very little, a few poorly articulated words, “sounds more than words”report Cindy and Ruben (they wished not to give their name), his parents, received this Monday at the end of February for their first appointment at the Jean-Verdier hospital (Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris) in Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis ). A slightly different pediatric consultation: here, every Monday morning, families come to seek support from pediatrician Sylvie Dieu Osika to remedy their children’s overexposure to screens.
The room where the doctor receives the young couple, at the end of a corridor adjoining the emergency room, resonates with melodies that Yarone repeats in a loop, often going in circles, sometimes clapping her hands. Without dwelling on the toys – train, blocks, etc. – left within reach. And that’s what put his mother on alert: “He’s in his bubble”, she worries.
In December 2023, during his holidays, in passing “a little more time at home”Cindy, for the first time, made an observation: her baby “lively and smiling in the first months”immortalized in videos on his smartphone, had withdrawn into himself. « Il looked at us less, smiled less, and hummed more and more. » Melodies taken from nursery rhymes posted on YouTube and viewed on the family television screen “left on every afternoon”, the parents concede frankly. That is, until they put the kibosh on it: on December 26, they started reducing screen time. On January 6, they turned off the television ” definitely ” until Yarone and her older sister, two years older, went to bed. And asked the ” nanny “ to do the same.
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“For ten days, it was very hard, resumes Cindy, he had one seizure after another, he looked like a drug addict. » Since then, she has seen him ” restart “ to be interested in their toys, ” restart “ to babble, and she rejoices in it. Without succeeding in putting aside the worry generated by his ritualized behavior.
“Take back control”
After a clinical examination of the little boy, the pediatrician provides advice on how to continue the “withdrawal” and sets up a second appointment – possibly the last – three months later. ” Keep it up, you have already gone part of the way, she reassures them. Stimulate him, play with him, be patient… Language is a structure that is put in place over time. By tackling the problem early enough, you have put the odds in your favor. »
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