When your child is struggling, don’t just ask, “What’s wrong with my child’s skills?” Also ask, “Is there anything going on in my child’s body?
I read your article on dementia prevention with great interest. One line in particular stopped me in my tracks: the observation that hearing and vision loss can isolate people and quietly shut them out of the world around them.
As a developmental audiologist, that’s the kind of “small” thing that changes the whole story in the work I do every day.
We now have strong research showing that untreated hearing loss isn’t just a nuisance of aging, but the single largest modifiable risk factor for dementia, responsible for more preventable cases than any other factor identified so far (The Lancet). In other words, hearing loss shouldn’t be hiding under the heading of “social isolation”; it’s the main contributor to that isolation in the first place (PubMed Central), even if the person isn’t homebound.
That “tree versus forest” problem is exactly what I see every day with children. When a child struggles in school, the system is excellent at seeing the forest of academic symptoms:
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