CLD 204 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Intellectual Disability, Lio, Fetus

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 204
• Professor: Erica Killick

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All drugs (prescription and/ or nonprescription) have side e ects and could be harmful to the fetus. Drugs could interfere with organ growth or cell di erentiation and result i problems in development alcohol and tobacco: alcohol: consumption of large quantities of alcohol is likely to result in. Facial abnormalities tobacco: smoking during pregnancy can cause. Mental retardation chromosome based disorders: down syndrome: 47 chromosomes are present instead of 46. The chance of down syndrome in pregnancy increases with the mother"s age. Motor development in infants and with with down syndrome appears to processed in typical sequences but at a much slower rate genetic defects: Talipes (clubfoot): one of the most common of all birth defects orthopaedic problem. Sickle cell disease: inherited blood disease pain, organ damage, anemia, death in childhood. Tay-sacks disease: becomes apparent around 3-6 months of age with the baby losing the ability to turn over and crawl death occurs in early childhood.