GADGET PHENOMENON: THE EFFECT TOWARD LANGUAGE DISORDERS AND SOCIAL INTERACTION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

Abstract

Technological advances nowadays bring significant changes to human life. One of the rapidly developing technologies is the gadget. The use of gadgets has become a common phenomenon in social lives. Gadgets have appeal in the old society, young, teenagers, and even early childhood. The use of the gadget in early childhood has special attention. Many parents are careless and leave all the responsibility of educating children on the gadget. They positioned gadgets as a “ nanny” to their children when the children are fussy. The main reason of parents give their gadget to early childhood are practicability and the children or toddler can calm down when their parent doing activities. But they forget about the impact of gadgets on children’s language development and social interaction. In this modern era, the percentage of early childhood language disorders has increased quite high. This cause has a new problem is the inequity of social interaction toward early childhood. This paper will discuss the extent of gadget’s impact that language disorders resulting in early childhood, any factors that can impact these language disorders. In other that, how do parents controlling and limiting the use of a gadget that caused obstructed social interaction process in early childhood.