I've been researching learning disabilities - of the invisible kind - since being diagnosed with APD - Auditory Processing Disorder, (which is sometimes referred to as Auditory Processing Dyslexia).
I'm a parent of four children and I'm 47.
I was diagnosed at the age of 45.
I'd had all the usual standard hearing tests that form part of the UKs child progress reports system, but still found I had difficulty in agreeing with other people on occasions in respect to what they'd said. Sometimes, unable to hear them due to environmental noises that I now understand, I was unable to filter out (due to the nature of APD).
I'm also researching the practical aspects in development of language, and all forms of human expression along with intellectual progression (within accepted standards of achievement and what has been agreed as forms of evidence).
I live in the UK, I grew up in Liverpool where we have an accent. You maybe able to imagine this if you think of John Lennon, who was also a scouser (someone from Liverpool).
In Liverpool, when discussing some thing... you'd probably hear something like this being said:
"Err.... dis ting ere.... a dunno what it does like errr.... but dey wanna have a dis cryption dat makes sense d'ya know warramean like?"
This is not considered a separate language ... it IS English, but spoken differently and corrected when writing to conform with standard English.
Since the 1600's (I forget the exact date) Grammar was introduced to the English language as more people were using the written word.
Introducing grammar also refined the spellings of common words and led to the agreement of the practice of including new words as part of the language regardless of their origin. This last step I'm sure was the most important decision in providing the world with a language platform they can share and express themselves with especially and particularly with the provision of computers and the internet.
What particularly interests me is the variation in definition when you consider changes of expression, motive, dialect, migration and various historical implications.
As for being a parent, I've loved every moment of it
