Understanding Children Who Have Been Affected by Maltreatment and Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
Both maltreatment and prenatal alcohol exposure result in lifelong impairments that significantly affect multiple developmental processes of school-age children, including language, social communication, social cognition, and executive functioning. This program provides a framework for the creation of more effective assessment and intervention processes for this population by speech-language pathologists and audiologists.
You will be able to:
- discuss the brain structures and functions that are affected by complex trauma and prenatal alcohol exposure and the relative effects on the developmental functions of attachment, affect regulation, and information processing.
- recognize sensory modulation difficulties in children with the potential to have maltreatment and/or prenatal alcohol exposure.
- use a framework appropriate for assessing the social communication of children who have been affected by maltreatment and prenatal alcohol exposure.
- discuss connections among emotional competence, alexithymia, and communication and language impairments.
- recognize cultural issues involved in appropriately identifying the occurrence of maltreatment.
- enumerate various ways the child welfare system affects the lives of the children and families who have been affected by maltreatment and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
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6/17/2012 to 5/3/2015