Another Texting Study Says Kids' Language Skills Are Fine

I think perhaps in all times of technological, societal flux elders immediately worry about the skills and capabilities of the generations that follow. But I think the opposite happens: technology makes us better by stretching our capacities.

Our parents, perhaps yours told you, there was concern when the calculator was invented. Dang kids would never learn to do proper math. And yet here we are in a world that produced the complicated math behind Google’s algorithms, and, perhaps more importantly, a world that can crunch the calculations of universal truths expected to come from smashing subatomic particles together.
their report. "What is most important, the extent of the children's textism use was able to predict significant variance in their word reading ability[...] This suggests that children's use of textisms is not only positively associated with word reading ability, but that it may be contributing to reading development in a way that goes beyond simple phonologically based explanations."   

The study’s timing is interesting because it is released amid the