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started. Welcome, Dr. Jared Brown. Thank you so much for having me today.

I am thrilled that you're here.

I'm going to introduce you really quick.

Dr. Jared Brown is a professor, trainer, researcher, and consultant with multiple years of experience teaching collegiate courses.

Jared has completed for separate master's degrees and

holds graduate certificates in autism, other health, disabilities, and traumatic brain injuries.

Jared has published several articles in book chapters. So we are talking about a big topic today, which is the causes and consequences of screen time

overuse.

You ready?

You bet.

Okay.

This is, as you know, a hot topic, especially now.

I am so interested in this topic because I do a lot of work with adult clients,

but I'm also doing, I do a lot of consultation with professionals and caregivers who have a

child or an adult on the spectrum or some other type of neurodevelop developmental disorder. And increasingly, one of the

main reasons why people reach out to me are kind of issues around screen time misuse. And screen time,

I think for your audience, kind of, what does that truly mean? I think some people kind of maybe

get confused. What does screen time actually mean? How much time and day is

your child or adult or you on the screen? That could be television, that could be computers, that could be on

your smart bone, playing video games, tablets, social media, being on YouTube. So any type of screen time, what you're looking at would constitute that.

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