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Article: The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
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- Exceptional Children
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- February 1, 1991
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The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. M. Dorris. New York,: Harper & Row, 1989. 300 pp. 18.95.
It has been less than 20 years since researchers identified a number of newborn traits associated with maternal alcohol consumption. Those traits include prenatal and postnatal growth deficiency, distinct facial malformations, small head circumference, central nervous system dysfunctions, and organ malformations. Today this collection of symptoms and subsequent developmental lags in most areas of growth, health problems, and varying degrees of mental deficiency are widely accepted features of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Less ...