Language development disorder in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), a case study
Entity
UAM. Departamento de Lingüística, Lenguas Modernas, Lógica y Fª de la Ciencia y Tª de la Literatura y Literatura ComparadaPublisher
MDPI, Basel, SwitzerlandDate
2020-10-10Citation
10.3390/languages5040037
Languages 5.4 (2020): 37
ISSN
2226-471XDOI
10.3390/languages5040037Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.3390/languages5040037Subjects
fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; language development disorders/diagnosis and assessment;; cognition disorders; ADHD; speech-language pathologists; FilologíaRights
© 2020 by the authors.Abstract
Prenatal alcohol exposure can cause developmental damage in children. There are different
types and ranges of alterations that fall under the name of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).
Disabilities in learning, cognition, and behavior are observed. Environmental conditions are
an influencing factor in this population since they are generally adverse and are either not diagnosed at
an early stage or given the appropriate support and approach. We present a case study of a 9-year-old
child, in which all the variables affecting his development (FASD diagnosis and socioenvironmental
conditions) were observed and analyzed. His early childhood under institutional care, the move
to a foster home at the age of 6, and several measures of evaluation from foster care to the present
are described. Difficulties in vocabulary, access to vocabulary, morphology, syntax, grammar, oral
narrative, pragmatics, speech, and communication were observed, along with cognitive difficulties in
memory, perception and executive functioning, social adaptation, learning, and behavior. An early
diagnosis and approach enable this population to develop skills in different dimensions to address
early adversity despite their neurological and behavioral commitment. Speech-language pathologist services are crucial for the diagnosis and treatment of the language and communication difficulties that characterize this syndrome
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Google Scholar:Vega-Rodríguez, Yuri E.
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Garayzabal-Heinze, Elena
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Moraleda-Sepúlveda, Esther
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