According to NCES 2, only 53 percent of children ages three to five were read to daily by a family member (1999). Children in families with incomes below the poverty line are less likely to be read to aloud everyday than are children in families with incomes at or above poverty.
There is more than hope for people with post-traumatic stress. Recovery can and does occur. Please do not rely on medication alone as it has no power to change the brain permanently. Effective cognitive-behavioral approaches -- which with repetition change the brain -- work in the vast majority of cases.
PDNA is a globally accepted tool and methodology for assessment jointly developed by the WB, EU and UN agencies following the agreement signed in 2008 to collaborate on post crisis assessments and recovery plans. It helps to assess the social and economic effects of the disaster and produce a recovery strategy for allocation of financial and