FAS Timeline
Body Characteristics
Social Behavioral Challenges
Potpouri
Post Birth Intervention
100
During this time the brain is developing in the fetus and can be affected by alcohol consumption. When alcohol is ingested it will cross the placenta into the fetuses body and then into the amniotic fluid. Through this process the fetus will re ingest the alcohol many times.
When is through the entire pregnancy?
100
These physical characteristics are present in the nose.
What is a low nasal bridge and a short nose?
100
Difficulty with input, integration memory and output info results in an inability to understand cause and effect.
What is Information processing deficits
100
This is used post birth to help cure or reverse the most serious problems of FAS.
What is nothing?
100
Because of the difficulties in trying to generalize learning from one situation to another, they do better in an environment with few changes.
What is consistency?
200
At this stage the iris and pupil are developing, but the eyelid has not yet formed. Drinking during this time can result in muscle and vision problems for the child.
What is 6.5 weeks?
200
This FAS facial anomaly is seen in the eyelids of some FAS children.
What is skin folds in the corner of the eye?
200
When a child is not able to "see the whole picture" and has difficulty linking the ideas together or taking what is learned in one setting and putting it into practice in another.
What is lack of generalization skills?
200
The fetuses ability to metabolize alcohol is this compared to the mother.
What is more slowly?
200
They forget things they want to remember as well as information that has been learned. For something to make it to long term memory it needs to be retaught.
What is repetition?
300
The time suggested by the Mayo clinic as to when expecting mothers should stop drinking alcohol.
What is prior to.
300
This physical characteristic has to do with the cranium.
What is a small head circumference?
300
Inability to understand the abstract meanings of concepts which structure our social world.
What is concrete v. abstract thinking?
300
This is the only sure way of guaranteeing a child will not have FAS.
What is not drinking?
300
They can be easily overstimulated which can lead to an "FAS shutdown" and no more information can be processed, by doing this the person has less of a chance to shutdown.
What is keep it simple?
400
In 1973 this researcher redescribed FAS after which more focus was directed its way.
Who is K.L. Jones
400
These physical markers are related to the mouth.
What are a thin upper lip and a indistinct philtrum?
400
Emotional and social understanding of a child with FAS is far below chronological age. Because of how the brain processes information and remembers what has been learned it is important that education be based on daily life.
What is socialization and skills of independence?
400
This is a related diagnosis to FAS where a child has some signs related to FAS but does not meet all the requirements.
What is fetal alcohol effects?
400
Say exactly what you mean. Remember they have problems with abstractions and generalizations.
What is is being specific?
500
The first year in which fetal alcohol syndrome was formally described by P. Lemoine and colleagues from Nantes.
What is 1968
500
This is a characteristic of the eye that is associated with FAS.
What is a small eye opening?
500
Due to the difficulty a person with FAS has understanding expectations and combining ideas to make a whole, they can be easily over stimulated.
What are anxiety and frustration levels?
500
This state has the highest level of binge drinking in the United States for women of child bearing age.
What is Wisconsin
500
Not using words with double meaning or idioms
What is concrete speech?
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