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 pr