FAS vs FASD
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What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
What is fetal Alcohol spectrum disorder?
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What are people trying to do to help bring awareness?
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How does FAS and FASD differ?
Fetal alcohol syndrome is a condition in a child that results from alcohol exposure during the mother's pregnancy. Fetal alcohol syndrome causes brain damage and growth problems. The problems caused by fetal alcohol syndrome vary from child to child, but defects caused by fetal alcohol syndrome are not reversible.
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Developmental: delayed development, failure to thrive, learning disability, low birth weight, short stature, or slow growth
Behavioral: aggression, antisocial behavior, hyperactivity, impulsivity, or irritability
Also common: anxiety, congenital heart disease, hearing loss, intellectual disability, malnutrition, misshapen face, poor coordination, single line on palm, speech impairment, or vision disorder
Services include therapy to help the child talk, walk, and interact with others.
We also engage in FASD prevention strategies that are targeted to specific at-risk populations, such as young people and alcohol-dependent women. You can help prevent FASD by referring people who ask about alcohol and pregnancy to NOFAS or spreading the message for women to abstain from alcohol while pregnant.
FAS can be TOTALLY PREVENTED !!!
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) is an umbrella term describing the range of effects that can occur in an individual whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy. These effects may include physical, mental, behavioral, and/or learning disabilities with possible lifelong implications.
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Services include therapy to help the child talk, walk, and interact with others.
They often appear normal and will usually have all the behavioural characteristics of a normal child and their disability may not be recognized until they enter school, if then.
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Developmental: delayed development, failure to thrive, learning disability, low birth weight, short stature, or slow growth
Behavioral: aggression, antisocial behavior, hyperactivity, impulsivity, or irritability
Also common: anxiety, congenital heart disease, hearing loss, intellectual disability, malnutrition, misshapen face, poor coordination, single line on palm, speech impairment, or vision disorder
FAS can be diagnosed when the baby is born, because of the visible physical changes it causes.
With FASD the baby looks normal. FASD may not be diagnosed until the child is 9 or 10, when more obvious developmental problems make it easier to identify. For example, problems with language, numeracy and behavioural problems like hyperactivity, repeating the same mistake, poor social skills and judgement.
FASD is more common than FAS. International evidence says that for every case of FAS there are at least 10 cases of FASD.