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Cell Phone Ownership Linked To Lower Reading Skills In Elementary Students

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Cell phones could be blunting young children's reading skills, a new study says.

Elementary school students who simply owned a cell phone scored worse on reading comprehension tests, researchers reported recently in the journal Behavioral Sciences.

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