Campaign groups in the US, UK and India claim that TV subtitles will help children learn to read. But our new research published in @psychscience.bsky.social shows that children don't even look at subtitles until they can already read at around 1 word per second.

** Subtitles - not a magic bullet for literacy **

Find out about our new research published in @psychscience.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/SLSubtitles

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