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.
Four patients needed rescue medication (mostly intravenous immunoglobulins). Three patients were able to stop concurrent ITP therapies, and the mean number of weekly platelet responses was 6. All four paediatric patients achieved a response at least once during treatment, and three achieved durable responses. Three patients needed rescue medication. The only patient who was receiving concurrent ITP medication was able to stop it, and the mean number of weekly platelet responses was 25.