The effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on child development.
Prenatal exposure to alcohol can be the cause of a growing child's learning and behavior problems, since alcohol is a teratogen. Exposure to large quantities of alcohol before birth can lead to the developmental disability and medical diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), and there may be a ran...
| Published in: | Infants & Young Children: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Early Childhood Intervention Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 10 - 26 |
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| Format: | case study Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
1994 Jan
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