Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

A PREGNANT WOMAN NEVER DRINKS ALONE

 

 

Signs & Symptoms:

 

• Low Birth weight
• Small Head Cirumference
• Failure to thrive
• Developmental delay
• Organ dysfunction
•  Epilepsy
• Poor coordination/fine motor skills
• Poor socialization skills, building and maintaining friendships
• Lack of imagination or curiosity
• Learning difficulties, including poor memory, inability to understand concepts such as time and money,poor language comprehension, poor problem-solving skills
• Behavioral problems
• Facial abnormalities, including smaller eye openings, flattened cheek bones, and indistinct philtrum (an underdeveloped groove between the nose and upper lip)