Research in the United States indicates that watching television a lot definitely does have an impact upon the reading levels of children. Because comic books emphasize pictures and have few words, she feels that if they are a child's only source of reading material for a long period of time, they will unquestionably have a negative effect on their language abilities.
美國的研究結果顯示，看電視時間較多的小孩，對語言文字的程度，的確有影響，漫畫因為重圖，文字較少，她認為，如果是長期、單一的閱讀，的確會影響語文能力。