Screen Use

Screen Use and Abuse
Create a Healthy Video Game Diet

for Your Child with ADHD
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meet today’s expert speakers:
Randy Kulman, Ph.D. and James Daley

Randy Kulman, Ph.D., is the founder and president of LearningWorks for
Kids (learningworksforkids.com), an educational technology company that
specializes in using video games to teach executive-functioning and
academic skills. For the past 30 years, Dr. Kulman has also been the clinical
director and president of South County Child and Family Consultants, a
private practice that specializes in the assessment of children with
executive functioning and attention difficulties. Additionally, Dr. Kulman is
the author of numerous essays and book chapters on the use of digital
technologies for improving executive-functioning skills in children.
James Daley is the Vice President and Creative Director at LearningWorks

for Kids. James oversees the editorial direction, design, and content
production for all of LearningWorks for Kid's websites and publications,
working to ensure the quality of content and consistency of vision across
diverse and evolving media platforms. In addition to his duties at LW4K,
James instructs digital writing for the University of Rhode Island, while
doggedly carrying on his passion for “paper-based media” as an author
and editor.

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Too Much Screen Time?
Should we be concerned?
Defining screen time:
•Recreational, Discretionary, Passive, Active
What are the costs of excessive screen time?
Addiction or overuse?
Internet Gaming Disorder in the DSM-V
Impact upon special needs kids
How much control do adults have over their kids
and for themselves.

Most Digital Play Is Good
Too
much
is
bad
Adults Are Just as Bad
as kids
Nielsen study, July 2018:
•Adults 11+ hours / day listening to, watching,

reading, or generally interacting with media
•TV: 4 hours and 46 minutes

•Radio: 106 minutes
•App web on cell phone: 142 minutes
•App web on tablet: 47 minutes
•Internet via other devices: 65 minutes

Mourning Dad

ADHD and
Screen Time
Concerns
• How are they similar to typically
developing kids?
• How much do they play?
• Do they play the same way?
• More issues with excessive
screen time, transitions,
frustration, and inappropriate
online behavior?

Problematic Behavior in Video-Game
Play in Children with ADHD

Internet
Gaming
Disorder
This is a
condition that
requires further
studies from the
DSM-V

Video
Game
Addiction
Vs.
Normal
Use

The Benefits of Screen Time
๏ 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

๏ EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
๏ SOCIAL INTERACTION
๏ CREATIVITY
๏ RELAXATION/STRESS
REDUCTION

Sensible Solutions for
Screen Time
 Stick to your values about violence or other
inappropriate content
 Model “Good Screen Time”: music, writing fan
fiction, communicating with friends, playing
Minecraft
 Learn about what your kids are doing
 Play along with them; Have your child teach you to
play
 Introduce them to your screen-based interests
 Parents/childcare pros need to learn about new
techs
 Understand their love for technology—LW4K
YouTube

Rule One Watch What you and your kids
are doing.
Modeling: Model Good screen time.
Adults Engage In other activities.
and
Talk About screen time with your kids.
Screens
Listen/
What your kids think about screens.
Observe

play together

Managing Screens: PLAY DIET
• Social Play, Active Play, Creative

Play, and Free Play.
• Digital Play is just one part of a
balanced Play Diet.
• Neglecting digital play is just as
bad as allowing too much
digital play.
• Digital Play can be active, social,
creative, and free.
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Managing Screens:
Curation of Content
• Only educational games
• Differentiation based on an individual
child’s characteristics
• Level of digital nutrition as judged by
the parent
• Choose games and apps suggested by
your kids
• Best for kids who can’t choose
appropriately or those with specific
academic needs

Managing Screens:
Make a Schedule
• An hour a day—video games
• After homework is done
• Only on weekends and vacations
• Anytime and anywhere
• Never
• Schedules—good for kids who
struggle in school or love screen-
based time too much
• Other schedules—LW4K Videos

Apple Screen Time
FEATURES
๏ DAILY SCREEN TIME
DOWNTIME
๏ APP TIME LIMITS BY
CATEGORY
๏ APP USE TIME TRACKING
๏ PICK UP TRACKING
๏ CONTENT CONTROL
๏ SHARE ACROSS
DEVICES

Google Family Link
FEATURES
๏ DAILY SCREEN TIME
LIMITS
๏ APP TIME REPORTS
๏ REMOTE LOCK
๏ LOCATION TRACKING
๏ APP APPROVALS
๏ TEACHER
RECOMMENDED APPS

The LW4K Model
Making Screens Good for Kids
1.
2.
3.
4.

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you!
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Screen Use and Abuse

Create a Healthy Video Game Diet

Sponsored by: adhd expert webinars

Randy Kulman, Ph.D. and James Daley

James Daley is the Vice President and Creative Director at LearningWorks

Sponsored by: adhd expert webinars

Play Attention: Enhance brain health and performance. Play Attention

Mention AdditudeMag0220 and receive 10% off your home or

Defining screen time:

•Recreational, Discretionary, Passive, Active

What are the costs of excessive screen time?

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•Adults 11+ hours / day listening to, watching,

•TV: 4 hours and 46 minutes

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๏ 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

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Modeling: Model Good screen time.

Adults Engage In other activities.

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• Social Play, Active Play, Creative

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