1. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stresses are traumas children endure and suffer through even into adulthood. I compare it to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Examples could be: physical, mental, verbal, or emotional abuse, the loss of a parent, a car accident, a bully, racism.
2. Adversities like poverty, racism, and violence could impact a child’s development mentally. They could grow up thinking that it is all they deserve, and start to settle into those adversities. Meaning that if a child grows up in poverty, all they are going to acquire is poverty life, and start to think they cannot go further than poverty life.
3. ACEs can affect literacy because the trauma children endure can affect their academic performance in school. Since ACEs heavily impact a child’s life, they can affect brain development like I said before. Studies show that children who endure these traumas has a poor performance in school. Violence can extremely affect the academic development and performance in a child, because all the child knows and think of is the abuse they receive.