Why are so many children diagnosed as suffering from autism, ADHD, dyslexia and other developmental disabilities?
There is a notion that the developmental disabilities being seen and treated in students is a creation of a failing education system, or provide psuedo-scientific clinical diagnoses for what are just stupid or lazy kids or kids from broken or single parent homes. A Harvard study, published by the Lancet, indicates these notions are false and in fact the disabilities are linked to chemical exposure.
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The report follows up on a similar review conducted by the authors in 2006 that identified five industrial chemicals as "developmental neurotoxicants," or chemicals that can cause brain deficits. The new study offers updated findings about those chemicals and adds information on six newly recognized ones, including manganese, fluoride, chlorpyrifos and DDT (pesticides), tetrachloroethylene (a solvent), and the polybrominated diphenyl ethers (flame retardants).
The study suggests that toxic chemicals may be to blame and researchers say a new global prevention strategy to control the use of toxic substances is urgently needed.
Instead of blaming bad parenting or bad public schools and the neo-liberal myths these play to, perhaps now something can be done about the neo-liberal industries that appear to be the true cause of these problems.