Fetal Alcohol: Part One
Summary:
Join host Jackie Wolf and Peggy Proudfoot McGuire MSW, Ph.D., Instructor/Coordinator of the Title 4E Child Welfare University Partnership Program and Fetal Alcohol educator, in the first of a two-part discussion on Fetal Alcohol.
Host:
Jackie Wolf is Associate Professor of the History of Medicine in the Department of Social Medicine at Ohio University.
Guest:
Peggy Proudfoot McGuire MSW, Ph.D. is Instructor/Coordinator of the Title 4E Child Welfare University Partnership Program and Fetal Alcohol educator.
Interesting Facts from the Show:
Only 10% - 40 % of children of chronic alcohol abusers have FAS. However, data suggests that even non-FAS children were affected by their mothers' drinking; most notably they suffer behavioral and cognitive deficits.
Today, fetal alcohol syndrome remains the leading known preventable cause of developmental disabilities. (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
As a mother consumes alcohol and her blood alcohol level rises, the embryo or fetus is exposed to the same blood alcohol levels.
Producer:Blis DeVault
Assistant Producer:
Michael Seymour
Director:
Mike Rodriguez
Technical Director:
Zane Shapiro
Audio:
Ethan Goldsmith
Mark Robinson
Cameras:
Lindsay Petroff
Hilary Romick
Teleprompter:
Krista Maggard
Kellye Greene
Related Links:
Ohio University Scripps College of Communications
http://www.scrippscollege.ohio.edu/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/fas/
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
