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Developmental Reading Disorder and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

One of the most important skills that anyone can come to possess is the ability to read. In many different areas of life and learning, reading is a skill that is necessary and basic.

Developmental reading disorder is an impairment in your brain’s capacity to translate written images that are taken in by your eyes into meaningful language. Developmental reading disorder is a learning disability that may hinder your ability to read, spell, write and sometimes speak. If you have been diagnosed with developmental reading disorder, you may meet the requirements for obtaining social security disability benefits like SSDI or SSI. The SSI and SSDI attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com are the ones who can help determine this. Do not delay or put this off. Contact socialsecurityhome.com, today.

Developmental reading disorder is referred to in other ways. It is also known as specific reading disability and dyslexia.

There are different types of developmental reading disorder. Some of these are:

  • Primary developmental reading disorder – This form of the disorder is marked by a dysfunction of the left side of your brain (your cerebral cortex).
  • Secondary developmental reading disorder – This type of the disorder is believed  to be brought about by hormonal development in the early stages of fetal development.
  • Trauma developmental reading disorder – This kind of the disorder is usually the result of some type of trauma or brain injury to the part of your brain that controls reading and writing.

Developmental reading disorder is a common condition in the United States. It is estimated to affect somewhere around 2 to 30% of the general population of the United States. The most accepted estimate for this disorder is about 10%.

As just mentioned above, trauma developmental reading disorder is brought about by some kind of trauma or brain injury to that part of your brain that controls reading and writing. The other types of developmental reading disorder look as if they are caused by a malfunction in certain parts of your brain that have control of language. It is also possible that genetics (heredity) may have a part in leading to developmental reading disorder due to the fact that the disorder frequently runs in families.

There are several different signs and symptoms that may indicate that you have developmental reading disorder. Some of these include:

  • Reading at a level that is well below your expected level
  • Seeing letters or words in reverse when you read
  • Having problems processing and understanding what you are hearing
  • Having difficulty with spelling
  • Having problems with rhyming
  • Having problems with remembering the sequence of things
  • Not having the ability to sound out the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word
  • Having difficulty following more than one command at a time
  • Having trouble hearing and seeing similarities and differences in the letters and words that you look at
  • Having problems with learning a foreign language
  • Having difficulty with comprehending and understanding instructions that are given fast
  • Having problems determining the meaning (content, idea) of a simple sentence.

 

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Subcortical Arteriosclerotic Encephalopathy and Receiving Disability

Sunday, September 18th, 2011
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Dementia is an ailment in which there is a progressive decline in cognitive ability that is caused by damage or disease in the brain. It is a greater decline in cognitive function than what would be normally expected from normal aging. When a person has dementia, the cognitive or knowing areas of the brain are affected. This includes attention, language, memory and problem solving.

In the later stages of dementia, people can often become disoriented in time (not knowing what day of the week, month or year it is). They may also become disoriented in person and place (not knowing who they are or where they are). Changes in the way the brain is functioning may also affect the ability to carry out daily activities, speech and memory.

Dementia can begin at any stage of adulthood. However, dementia takes place most of the time in people who are over the age of 65.

The main thing that leads to dementia in older adults is Alzheimer’s disease. Vascular dementia is the second most common cause of dementia in senior adults. This kind of dementia is marked by the blood vessels in the brain being affected.

Multi-infarct dementia is the most prevalent form of vascular dementia. Multi-infarct dementia accounts for 10-20% of all of the instances of gradually worsening or progressive dementia.

Multi-infarct dementia usually takes place in people who are between the ages of 60 and 75. Multi-infarct dementia occurs more often in men than it does in women.

Subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy is a type of multi-infarct dementia. Subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy usually starts by affecting the subcortical part of the brain, but this ailment may also affect the cortical area of the brain.

In the early stages of subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy, attention, motivation and emotionality are usually affected. As subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy progresses, difficulties take place with judgment and memory. In the end stages of this ailment, there is a complete breakdown of brain function, just like there is in other kinds of dementia.

Subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy is brought about by widespread, microscopic areas of damage to the deep layers of white matter in the brain. This damage is due to the thickening and narrowing (atherosclerosis) of the arteries that nourish the subcortical areas of the brain.

If you have a loved one that you think may have subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy, there are several different signs and symptoms to watch for that may be an indication of this ailment. Some of these are:

Ÿ  An inability to act or make decisions

Ÿ  Changes in personality or mood

Ÿ  Difficulty with walking

Ÿ  A lack of facial expression

Ÿ  Depression

Ÿ  The loss of bladder control (urinary incontinence)

Ÿ  Problems with speech

Ÿ  Short-term memory loss

Ÿ  Forgetfulness

Ÿ  Apathy or indifference

Ÿ  Slowness of conduct

Ÿ  Irritability

Ÿ  Clumsiness.

These signs and symptoms usually begin after the age of 60. They do not always take place in all of the people who have subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy. There are also instances where they may occur only as a passing phase.

You may have a spouse or loved one who is incapacitated and unable to work due to subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy and/or complications that have developed from this ailment. If this is true, have you attempted to get financial aid?

Have you applied for financial aid from the Social Security Administration on behalf of your loved one by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits? Was your loved one denied by the Social Security Administration?

If you plan on reapplying or appealing your loved one’s denial, you really ought to have the disability lawyer at socialsecurityhome.com fighting for your loved one. The disability lawyer at socialsecurityhome.com is able to get the disability benefits that your loved one is entitled to.

Do not wait. Turn to socialsecurityhome.com, now.

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Spastic Cerebral Palsy and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
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Cerebral palsy designates a group of chronic conditions that affect posture, body movement, muscle coordination and balance. Cerebral palsy results from some kind of brain damage or malformation that occurs either during pregnancy, during delivery or shortly after delivery.

There are several different forms of cerebral palsy. Each one is classified by the way that it affects you.

Spastic cerebral palsy is one of the kinds of cerebral palsy. Spastic cerebral palsy is characterized by having one or more tight muscle groups that limit your movement. It may cause you to have jerky and stiff movements. You may have a difficult time moving from one position to another, and you may have a hard time holding or letting go of an object.

Spastic cerebral palsy is the most common form of cerebral palsy. About 80% of all the cases of cerebral palsy are spastic cerebral palsy.

Spastic cerebral palsy is caused by an abnormality in or an injury to your cerebrum, which is the largest part of your brain. This is the part of your brain that controls sensation and voluntary motor function. Spastic cerebral palsy affects your movement, but the underlying difficulty is in your brain, not your muscles. Head injury and certain illnesses can also cause spastic cerebral palsy.

For many years, researchers and doctors thought that spastic cerebral palsy was caused by a lack of oxygen during birth. Now, it is believed that only a few cases are caused by problems during labor and delivery. With most cases of spastic cerebral palsy that are congenital (present at birth), doctors do not fully understand what has caused it.

There are some possible causes of spastic cerebral palsy that have been identified. Some of these include:

  • Disturbance to brain circulation before birth
  • Abnormal brain development before birth
  • Severe jaundice in newborns
  • Maternal infection during pregnancy.

There can be a wide range of signs and symptoms with spastic cerebral palsy. These signs and symptoms can be anywhere from mild to severe. Some of these include:

  • Joint contracture (joints that are tight and do not open all the way up)
  • Muscle weakness or loss of movement in a group of muscles (paralysis)
  • Muscles that are extremely tight and will not stretch
  • Abnormal walk or gait that is marked by your knees touching or being crossed, walking on your toes, your legs making “scissors” movements and your arms tucked in toward your sides.
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A Stroke and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
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Your brain is the center of your nervous system. Your brain monitors and regulates your body’s actions and reactions. It continuously receives sensory information. Your brain rapidly analyzes this data and then responds by controlling your bodily actions and functions.

In order for your brain to function like it should, it requires a constant supply of blood from which it receives the glucose and oxygen that it needs. A stroke is when the supply of blood to a part of your brain is interrupted or severely reduced.

A stroke is also referred to in other ways. It is also referred to as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA), brain attack, cerebrovascular disease, cerebral hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, stroke- ischemic and CVA.

There are two main types of stroke. They are ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke.

Ischemic stroke is the most common, accounting for about 80 to 90% of all strokes. Hemorrhagic stroke accounts for the other 10 to 20% of strokes.

There are two common types of ischemic stroke. They are thrombotic stroke and embolic stroke.

There are also two types of hemorrhagic stroke. They are intracerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage.

A TIA (transient ischemic attack) is sometimes referred to as a ministroke. It is a brief episode in which you experience signs and symptoms that are similar to what you would have in a full-blown stroke. It should be thought of as a warning that you may be in danger of having a major stroke.

Somewhere around 600,000 strokes occur in the United States each year. Around 150,000 of these strokes are fatal, making stroke the third leading cause of death in the United States and the number one cause of disability.

The incidence of stroke is the same for men and women. However, women are more likely to die from stroke than men. Ischemic stroke occurs more often in people over the age of 65, while hemorrhagic stroke occurs more frequently in people of a younger age.

There are some signs and symptoms that may be an indication of a stroke. These include:

  • Having difficulty seeing with one or both of your eyes
  • A sudden, severe headache
  • Difficulty walking
  • Numbness or paralysis on one side of your face or body
  • Problems with talking or understanding.

You or a loved one may have had a stroke. A stroke and/or complications resulting from it may have resulted in you or your loved one’s disability and need for financial help.

You or your loved one may be thinking about applying for the financial assistance that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by a stroke and/or complications resulting from it. You or your loved one may have already applied and been denied by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one considers reapplying or appealing the denial, think carefully about this fact. The simple truth is that people who have a disability lawyer fighting for them like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people who are not represented by a disability attorney.

Please do not hesitate. Contact the disability lawyer at socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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Brain Herniation and Receiving Social Security Disability

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
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Your brain is an extremely interesting and unique organ. It is the center of your nervous system.

Your brain regulates and monitors your body’s actions and reactions. Your brain continuously receives sensory information. It rapidly analyzes this data and then responds by controlling your bodily actions and functions.

Bran herniation is a condition in which the tissue of your brain, blood vessels and cerebrospinal fluid become displaced outside of the compartments in your head that they normally occupy because of an increase in intercranial pressure. This is the pressure inside of your skull. The increased pressure causes your brain to expand, but because your brain does not have anywhere to go inside of your skull, it becomes badly damaged.

Brain herniation can occur in different places. These include:

  • Through a natural opening at the base of your skull that is known as the foramen magnum
  • Through openings that result from brain surgery
  • Between areas inside of your skull like those that are separated by a rigid membrane that is referred to as the “tentorium”.

Brain herniation is known by other names. It is also referred to as uncal herniation, tonsillar herniation, herniation syndrome, herniation – brain, subfalcine herniation and transtentorial herniation.

Brain herniation is caused by something inside of your skull that produces pressure that moves brain tissue, blood vessels and cerebrospinal fluid from where they are supposed to be. This happens most frequently because of brain swelling that results from a head injury. There are other things that can cause brain herniation. These include:

  • Build up of fluid inside of the skull (hydrocephalus)
  • Primary brain tumor (tumor that begins in the brain)
  • Abscess
  • Metastatic brain tumor (tumor that moves to the brain from somewhere else in the body)
  • Hemorrhage.

There are several signs and symptoms that may be an indication of brain herniation. Some of these are:

  • An irregular pulse
  • No pulse (cardiac arrest)
  • No breathing (respiratory arrest)
  • Irregular breathing
  • An altered mental state
  • Progressive loss of consciousness
  • Lack of coordination
  • Loss of all brainstem reflexes (pupils reacting to light, blinking, gagging)
  • Coma.

You may have a loved one who has survived brain herniation. Brain herniation and/or complications that have resulted from this condition may be the reason why your loved one is disabled and cannot work.

If this is true, you may need help in caring for your loved one. You may need financial assistance.

You may have considered applying for the financial help that you need to care for your loved one from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits on behalf of your loved one because of the disability caused by brain herniation and/or complications that have resulted from this condition. You may have already done this, and your loved one was turned down by the Social Security Administration.

If you decide to reapply or appeal the denial of your loved one, always remember this. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one at Social Security Home are approved more often than people who do not have a disability lawyer on their side.

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Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Receiving Social Security Disability

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
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At any given time, about 50 million people have epilepsy worldwide. About 2.5 million of those people with epilepsy are Americans. More than 180,000 people are diagnosed with epilepsy every year. Epilepsy usually begins in children or people over age 65, but it can occur at any age.

Epilepsy is actually a group of related disorders that are characterized by recurring seizures. These related disorders may have vastly different symptoms, but they all involve episodic abnormal electrical activity in your brain. Epilepsy disrupts the transmission of electrical signals in your brain. When this happens a seizure takes place.

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a term that is used in reference to seizures that are generated in that portion of your brain that is called the temporal lobe. This can mean either your left or right temporal lobe. In rare instances, seizures may occur in both temporal lobes.

Your temporal lobe is that part of your brain that processes fight or flight reactions, short-term memory and emotions. If you have frontal lobe epilepsy, you may have strange feelings at the beginning of your seizures. These feelings may range anywhere from fear to euphoria, hallucinations of smell or taste and déjà vu.

An emotion or unusual sensation that is known as an aura may take place before a temporal lobe epilepsy seizure that serves as a warning of an impending seizure. An aura is really a small seizure in and of itself. Examples of auras are:

  • A rising sensation in your abdomen
  • A sudden sense of unprovoked fear
  • The sudden occurrence of a strange taste or odor
  • A déjà vu experience.

There are some signs and symptoms of a temporal lobe epilepsy seizure. These include:

  • Repeated chewing or swallowing
  • Loss of awareness of surroundings
  • Unusual finger movements like picking motions
  • Staring
  • Lip smacking.

There are signs and symptoms that you may experience after a temporal lobe epilepsy seizure. These include:

  • Problems with speaking and a short time of confusion
  • Being unaware that you have had a seizure until someone tells you
  • An inability to recall things that happened during the seizure.

You or a loved one may have temporal lobe epilepsy. This disorder and/or complications resulting from or other disabling conditions that you may have along with it may be the cause of your disability and need for financial assistance.

You or your loved one may intend to apply for the financial help that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by temporal lobe epilepsy and/or complications resulting from or other disabling conditions that you may have along with it. Have you or your loved one already applied and been denied?

If you or your loved one plans on reapplying or appealing the denial, consider this. People who have a disability lawyer standing with them are approved more often than people who are not represented by a disability attorney.

We can help you find a disability lawyer to help you fight the Social Security Administration for the benefits you deserve.

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Anaplastic Astrocytoma and Receiving Social Security Disability

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
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A brain tumor is a growth or mass of abnormal cells in your brain. There are over 120 different kinds of tumors that can develop in your brain. Some of these growths are benign. Others are malignant. The tumors that start in your brain are referred to as primary brain tumors. If a malignancy begins in another area of your body and then spreads to your brain, it is called a metastatic or secondary brain tumor.

Anaplastic astrocytoma is an infiltrating, primary tumor. This means that it begins in your brain, rather that metastasizing (spreading) from some other part of your body to your brain.

Anaplastic astrocytoma has tentacles that may invade your surrounding tissue. This gives a butterfly-like pattern through the white matter of your cerebral hemispheres. Anaplastic astrocytoma may invade the dura (a membrane covering your brain), or it may spread by means of the spinal fluid through the ventricles of your brain. It is rare for an anaplastic astrocytoma to spread (metastasize) outside of your brain and spinal cord.

Anaplastic astrocytoma is marked by rapid growth. Many times, it spreads into areas of your brain that are nearby. Because of this, it is extremely difficult to remove all of the tumor, and it often comes back (recurs).

Anaplastic astrocytoma may begin as a grade III tumor, or it can be a recurrence of a lower-grade, grade II astrocytoma that has already been treated. Anaplastic astrocytoma accounts for about 4% of all primary brain tumors that are diagnosed in the United States.

Although anaplastic astrocytoma can develop at any age, it occurs most often in men and women who are in their 30s to 50s. Anaplastic astrocytoma is more common in men than in women.

The signs and symptoms of an anaplastic astrocytoma depend on where the tumor is located in your brain. Some of the common signs and symptoms include:

  • Personality or mental changes
  • Drowsiness
  • Headaches that are worse in the morning but get better through the day
  • Vision difficulties
  • Vomiting and nausea
  • Seizures
  • Lethargy
  • Weakness and other motor dysfunction.

You or a loved one may have an anaplastic astrocytoma. Anaplastic astrocytoma and/or complications that have resulted from this condition may have led to your disability and not being able to work.

Your may need help if this is the case. You may need financial assistance.

You or your loved one may have decided to apply for the financial help that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by anaplastic astrocytoma and/or complications that have resulted from this condition. You or your loved one may have already taken this step and been turned down by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one intends on reapplying or appealing the denial, here is something important for you to think about. People who have a disability lawyer in their corner like the one you will find at Social Security Home are approved more often than people who are not represented by a disability attorney.

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