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Infant Symbolic Play as an Early Indicator of Fetal Alcohol-Related Deficit.
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Infancy . Nov/Dec2010, Vol. 15 Issue 6, p586-607. 22p. 7 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Infant symbolic play was examined in relation to prenatal alcohol exposure and socioenvironmental background and to predict which infants met criteria for fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) at 5 years. A total of 107 Cape-Colored, South African infants born to heavy drinking mothers and abstainers/light drinkers were recruited prenatally. Complexity of play, sociodemographic and psychological correlates of maternal alcohol use, and quality of parenting were assessed at 13 months, and intelligence quotient and FAS diagnosis at 5 years. The effect of drinking on spontaneous play was not significant after control for social environment. In contrast, prenatal alcohol and quality of parenting related independently to elicited play. Elicited play predicted 5-year Digit Span and was poorer in infants subsequently diagnosed with FAS/partial FAS and in nonsyndromal heavily exposed infants, compared with abstainers/light drinkers. Thus, symbolic play may provide an early indicator of risk for alcohol-related deficits. The independent effects of prenatal alcohol and quality of parenting suggest that infants whose symbolic play is adversely affected by alcohol exposure may benefit from stimulation from a responsive caregiver. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *FETAL alcohol syndrome
*ALCOHOLISM
*CHI-squared test
*STATISTICAL correlation
*ALCOHOL drinking
*INFANT psychology
*INFANT development
*INTELLIGENCE tests
*INTERVIEWING
*LONGITUDINAL method
*SYMBOLISM (Psychology)
*RESEARCH methodology
*MOTHERS
*SCIENTIFIC observation
*PARENTING
*PLAY
*PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
*REGRESSION analysis
*RESEARCH funding
*SCALES (Weighing instruments)
*SOUND recordings
*VIDEO recording
*SOCIOECONOMIC factors
*SOCIAL context
*INTER-observer reliability
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*PREGNANCY
*DIAGNOSIS
*DISEASE risk factors
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15250008
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Infancy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 66588359
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00031.x