Some others, such as the psychiatrist Edward Hallowell, go so far as to suggest that we are creating a cadre of children with environmentally induced attentional deficits because of the incessant, obsession-promoting hold that digital distractions pose for a child. This clinician’s concern is that the increasing number of children diagnosed with attention-based learning deficits may reflect not only better, earlier diagnoses, but also the creation of new forms of attention deficit in a generation of distracted children.
