Child autism linked to hours spent watching TV
Tony Allen-Mills
October 22, 2006

A NEW study claims to have found “strong support” for the theory that too much television for small children may trigger autism.

The study — which has sparked an angry debate in America, where it was carried out — found a correlation between the number of hours that children younger than three spend watching television and the rates of autism in a county-by-county analysis of four states.

The study provides the latest controversial theory to explain the estimated 10-fold rise in reported cases of autism over the past 30 years. There are now approximately 90,000 British children with autistic disorders. the rest