Download or read book Impact of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Pre-adoption Placement on School-age Functioning of Intercountry-adopted Children written by Felicia J. Fago and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current study assessed the relationship between prenatal alcohol exposure risk and pre-adoption placement risk on the social-emotional behavior, academic functioning, and adaptive functioning of school-age intercountry-adopted children. Participants included 60 children from six to 13 years of age who were adopted into the United States from foreign countries. This group was divided into high risk of prenatal alcohol exposure (HPAE = 28) and low risk of prenatal alcohol exposure (LPAE = 32) by using the 4-Digit Diagnostic Code. Linear regression, logistic regression models, and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to investigate the separate and cumulative effects of prenatal alcohol exposure risk and pre-adoption placement risk on school-age outcomes. After controlling for potential confounding variables, high risk of prenatal alcohol exposure was found to be the only variable that had a significant effect on overall social-emotional behavior (beta= .366, p = .004), academic functioning (beta= -.528, p = .000), and adaptive functioning (beta= -.385, p = .002). There was no differential effect of HPAE versus LPAE on internalizing social-emotional behavior but participants with HPAE were more likely to exhibit externalizing social-emotional behaviors. Additional research is needed for both the identification of prenatal alcohol exposure in this population, as well as interventions that effectively mitigate the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on social-emotional, academic, and adaptive behavior functioning