Psychological characteristics of internationally adopted post-institutionalized children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
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Sensory processing in internationally adopted, post-institutionalized children.
BACKGROUND/METHODS Sensory processing capacities of 8-12-year-old internationally adopted (IA) children who experienced prolonged institutional care (> 12 months with 75% of pre-adoption lives in institutional care) prior to adoption into family environments (PI) were compared to a group of IA children who were adopted early (< 8 months) predominantly from foster care with little or no instit...
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عنوان ژورنال: The International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1925-7066
DOI: 10.7895/ijadr.v3i1.133