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...

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Published in:Infants & Young Children: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Early Childhood Intervention Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 10 - 26
Main Author: Olson HC
Format: case study Journal Article
Published: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 1994 Jan
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