What effect dose illiteracy has on a person and country?

Answer 1

Living now in the 21st century, children as young as the age of 3 are taught the basics of phonetics and language. If you're illiterate in our world, you basically have no chance of survival. Warning signs, important labels, street signs, and everything around our world evolves around Literacy. America is one of the highest-literacy rated countries in the world, and being able to read and write with proper grammar, is essential.

Answer 2

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT ILLITERACY IN AMERICA · As many as 23% of the adult American population (40-44 million) is functionally illiterate (Level 1 according to the National Adult Literacy Survey), lacking basic skills beyond a fourth-grade level. · Illiteracy is widespread, a problem in every community, not limited to any race, region or socioeconomic class. ILLITERACY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY · Adult illiteracy costs society an estimated $240 billion each year in lost industrial productivity, unrealized tax revenues, welfare, crime, poverty, and related social ills. ILLITERACY AND HEALTH · Adults with low-level reading skills frequently suffer from health problems because the lack the ability to read medical directions, health-related literature or prescription labels. Chronic health conditions may go improperly monitored by patients who are functionally illiterate and the overall well-being of these individuals may worsen overtime causing frequent doctor or emergency room visits, hospitalization, or even death. ILLITERACY AND THE WORKPLACE · According to the NALS, 40% of the labor force in the United States has limited skills. · American businesses lose more than $60 billion in productivity each year to employee's lack of basic skills. (NALS) ILITERACY AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM · The rate of illiteracy in America's correctional systems is over 60% (National Institutes of Health) ILLITERACY AND AMERICA'S YOUTH · The saddest casualty of the illiteracy in America are the children who are affected by intergenerational illiteracy. · Children of disadvantaged parents begin their school life behind their peers. Parents with minimal or no reading skills often cannot provide the kind of support their children need to do well in school. · Analysis has shown a direct correlation between young people's test scores and the grade level attained by their parents. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT ILLITERACY IN AMERICA · As many as 23% of the adult American population (40-44 million) is functionally illiterate (Level 1 according to the National Adult Literacy Survey), lacking basic skills beyond a fourth-grade level. · Illiteracy is widespread, a problem in every community, not limited to any race, region or socioeconomic class. ILLITERACY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY · Adult illiteracy costs society an estimated $240 billion each year in lost industrial productivity, unrealized tax revenues, welfare, crime, poverty, and related social ills. ILLITERACY AND HEALTH · Adults with low-level reading skills frequently suffer from health problems because the lack the ability to read medical directions, health-related literature or prescription labels. Chronic health conditions may go improperly monitored by patients who are functionally illiterate and the overall well-being of these individuals may worsen overtime causing frequent doctor or emergency room visits, hospitalization, or even death. ILLITERACY AND THE WORKPLACE · According to the NALS, 40% of the labor force in the United States has limited skills. · American businesses lose more than $60 billion in productivity each year to employee's lack of basic skills. (NALS) ILITERACY AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM · The rate of illiteracy in America's correctional systems is over 60% (National Institutes of Health) ILLITERACY AND AMERICA'S YOUTH · The saddest casualty of the illiteracy in America are the children who are affected by intergenerational illiteracy. · Children of disadvantaged parents begin their school life behind their peers. Parents with minimal or no reading skills often cannot provide the kind of support their children need to do well in school. · Analysis has shown a direct correlation between young people's test scores and the grade level attained by their parents. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT ILLITERACY IN AMERICA · As many as 23% of the adult American population (40-44 million) is functionally illiterate (Level 1 according to the National Adult Literacy Survey), lacking basic skills beyond a fourth-grade level. · Illiteracy is widespread, a problem in every community, not limited to any race, region or socioeconomic class. ILLITERACY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY · Adult illiteracy costs society an estimated $240 billion each year in lost industrial productivity, unrealized tax revenues, welfare, crime, poverty, and related social ills. ILLITERACY AND HEALTH · Adults with low-level reading skills frequently suffer from health problems because the lack the ability to read medical directions, health-related literature or prescription labels. Chronic health conditions may go improperly monitored by patients who are functionally illiterate and the overall well-being of these individuals may worsen overtime causing frequent doctor or emergency room visits, hospitalization, or even death. ILLITERACY AND THE WORKPLACE · According to the NALS, 40% of the labor force in the United States has limited skills. · American businesses lose more than $60 billion in productivity each year to employee's lack of basic skills. (NALS) ILITERACY AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM · The rate of illiteracy in America's correctional systems is over 60% (National Institutes of Health) ILLITERACY AND AMERICA'S YOUTH · The saddest casualty of the illiteracy in America are the children who are affected by intergenerational illiteracy. · Children of disadvantaged parents begin their school life behind their peers. Parents with minimal or no reading skills often cannot provide the kind of support their children need to do well in school. · Analysis has shown a direct correlation between young people's test scores and the grade level attained by their parents. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT ILLITERACY IN AMERICA · As many as 23% of the adult American population (40-44 million) is functionally illiterate (Level 1 according to the National Adult Literacy Survey), lacking basic skills beyond a fourth-grade level. · Illiteracy is widespread, a problem in every community, not limited to any race, region or socioeconomic class. ILLITERACY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY · Adult illiteracy costs society an estimated $240 billion each year in lost industrial productivity, unrealized tax revenues, welfare, crime, poverty, and related social ills. ILLITERACY AND HEALTH · Adults with low-level reading skills frequently suffer from health problems because the lack the ability to read medical directions, health-related literature or prescription labels. Chronic health conditions may go improperly monitored by patients who are functionally illiterate and the overall well-being of these individuals may worsen overtime causing frequent doctor or emergency room visits, hospitalization, or even death. ILLITERACY AND THE WORKPLACE · According to the NALS, 40% of the labor force in the United States has limited skills. · American businesses lose more than $60 billion in productivity each year to employee's lack of basic skills. (NALS) ILITERACY AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM · The rate of illiteracy in America's correctional systems is over 60% (National Institutes of Health) ILLITERACY AND AMERICA'S YOUTH · The saddest casualty of the illiteracy in America are the children who are affected by intergenerational illiteracy. · Children of disadvantaged parents begin their school life behind their peers. Parents with minimal or no reading skills often cannot provide the kind of support their children need to do well in school. · Analysis has shown a direct correlation between young people's test scores and the grade level attained by their parents.

Answer 3

Illiteracy can affect human characteristics through abnormal psychological development and development of antisocial characteristics.

For example, when a child cannot read at the expected level during his or her school years, he or she may begin to feel isolated. Many children begin to form antisocial behaviors in the earliest educational years. Children begin to mimic what they hear during oral reading and become adept at doing so in nearly perfect sync with those with whom he or she is reading. This leads to cheating from others written work to keep the fallacy of being a reader intact, thereby falsely protecting the ego. this is only one among many abnormal psychological responses that can grow from illiteracy during the earliest education years.

Jump ahead to middle or jr. high school and the negative sociological responses become more evident as teens or tweens become involved with others having similar self-worth issued grown out of illiteracy. Each is looking for something or someone to validate his or her self-worth as a human being who has something to offer others. While all scenarios cannot be played out in this written response, one that is all too familiar is the formation of gangs, or groups of young people who become "family", generally due to the commonality of their illiteracy, but not conscious of relating to others in that way. Sociopathic behaviors are an accepted norm within the group, and as they play out their mutual need for attention, value, and fulfillment of ego, illegal activities emerge as a new norm, further changing brain development.

A snapshot of life in later years may show us men in wheelchairs, living in poverty, bitter, still unfulfilled; women with more children than they can care for, depressed, with social services their only means of financial support. Malnutrition and learning disorders often the outcome for the child victims born of parental drug, physical, and psychological abuse, whether perpetuated by self or another. Old gang members trying to find out where they went wrong, but too proud now to ask for help.

Again, this is but one of a long list of varied scenarios and outcomes that is born of illiteracy. The list, I'm afraid, is one that may never come to an end. Trust that these outcomes and scenarios are growing, changing, and being witnessed by educators every minute of every day in many schools in the nation, as well as in doctors offices, and by social and psychological service personnel who are overwhelmed by the needs of the child victims born of illiterate parents.

Answer 4

The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society is a book by Jonathan Kozol. It is about the negative affect that illiterate people can have on society and themselves.