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Prenatal Substance Exposure (PSE) all too often dramatically impacts a young child's normal developmental trajectory during the critical period of infancy. PSE not only places a young child at risk for growth and development, but can also disrupt the child's ability to interact and develop a secure attachment with their caregiver. Young children with PSE experience self-regulation difficulties and developmental delays because prenatal substance exposures directly impact the brain's information processing abilities, including how the brain processes sensory information. Often these same children experience neglect, trauma, and are removed from their birth parents, subsequently cared for in the foster care system which also influences their developmental outcomes.
How these children's self-regulatory and developmental difficulties present from birth through age five will be addressed in this full-day workshop. Parent education strategies and therapeutic interventions that will help facilitate these children's development will be presented and discussed.
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