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Copper Canyon AcademyCOPPER CANYON ACADMEY is an all girls school in Rimrock, Arizona. COPPER CANYON ACADEMY offers an extremely comprehensive therapeutic program for girls and their families through individual, group, and animal therapy. There are also parent seminars and family workshops. All of the therapists who work with the teenage girls and their families at COPPER CANYON ACADEMY are licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Services.

TV and Video Games Could Cause Attention and Learning Disorders

Too much time spent watching television and playing video games puts children at risk for attention and learning problems as well as academic failure, according to researchers at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Other research has indicated that watching television may cause lower grades because it takes too much time away from homework and reading. However, this new study, published in the May 2007 issue of Pediatrics, concludes that excessive television watching and video game playing may be a contributing factor in whether a child develops learning and attention disorders.

"Whether teens had existing attention or learning problems or whether they don't have them, they were at greater risk for later attention and learning problems (if they watched too much television)," according to Dr. Jeffrey G. Johnson.

Dr. Johnson and his team interviewed 678 families three times - when their children were ages 14, 16, and 22 years old. Those fourteen-year-olds who watched three or more hours of television daily were more likely to have attention disorders, be bored at school, have bad grades and drop out of high school.

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