Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood. ACEs can include violence, abuse, and growing up in a family with mental health or substance use problems. Toxic stress from ACEs can change brain development and affect how the body responds to stress. Dr. Mona mentions how health care provides must be able to know the signs of when a child is in danger, and what to do about the situation.
Things like racism, violence, and poverty can impact a child’s development because it could cause a child not to develop right. Violence would be the physical aspect of groth within a child. A child that is being abused could not grow their body properly. Abuse can be very detrimental to a Childs emotional and physical development.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) could affect literacy because children from those low-income families mostly will not care not attend school let alone care for an education if they attend school. Some families may need may need their children to get jobs to support their families. Kids put into ACE predicaments have a lesser lead than a child with no ACEs therefore always putting them last in many efforts.