Signs & Symptoms
The range of many disorders caused by prenatal alcohol exposure in utero is known as
What is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder?
This is the amount of alcohol that is safe to drink during pregnancy
What is none?
Consumption of this causes FASD
What is alcohol?
The youth we serve who have FASD also have
What is trauma?
Having one glass of wine a week is safe during pregnancy
What is false?
These are the 3 types of facial abnormalities in children with FASD
What is thin short palpebral, smooth philtrum, thin upper lip
Alcohol in utero causes what to a child
What is brain damage?
Mothers have consumed alcohol during this stage to cause FASD
What is pregnancy?
These disabilities/disorders often coexist with fetal alcohol syndrome (name one)
Learning disorders, ADHD, ADD, attachment disorders, PTSD?
A developing baby cannot process alcohol
What is true?
Deficits in learning, memory, attention, language, social skills, motor skills, controlling behavior, reasoning & judgement, academics like math and reading are all signs of what
What is Brain Damage?
These types of medication reverse symptoms of FASD
What is none?
This organ is most susceptible to damage during any point during pregnancy.
What is the brain?
What is care?
Every child with FASD has facial abnormalities
What is False?
Being impulsive, acting out from frustration, not understanding consequences, being unfocused and easily distracted are what type of everyday life problems individuals with FASD experience
What is behaviour problems?
This is a cognitive effect of FASD (name one)
The trimester of pregnancy that is affected by alcohol exposure in utero
What is all trimesters?
These organs may present problems to a child with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
What is heart, kidney, or bones?
FASD impacts 4% of the Canadian population
What is true? (96,000)
Vision, Kidney, hearing, heart & bones are what type of symptoms that people with FASD may experience
What are physical symptoms?
Problems with these two senses can appear in children with FASD
What is vision and hearing?
Drinking alcohol in this period of pregnancy an cause abnormal facial features and problems with central nervous system development
What is the first 3 months of pregnancy?
This part of the brain is effected due to alcohol consumption in utero (name one)
What is the frontal lobe, the corpus callosum, the cerebellum, the hippocampus, and the basal ganglia?
FASD is just as common, if not more, than autism spectrum disorder
What is true?