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Peer reviewedSprafkin, Joyce; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1988
Twenty-one emotionally disturbed elementary grade children completed a television viewing skills curriculum. Results of the intervention found that the subjects made significantly more accurate reality-fantasy discriminations concerning television program content than a control group; however, the curriculum was not effective in increasing…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Healy, Jane M. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1990
The rapid, disjointed, and vivid style of Sesame Street may impede rather than promote progress toward literacy and the development of voluntary attention. It robs children of the ability to create mental pictures. Contends that it is a failure as an instructional medium. (DM)
Descriptors: Attention, Childrens Television, Dysgraphia, Early Childhood Education
