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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