CORRELATES OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND INTELLIGENCE IN CHILDREN WITH FETALALCOHOL SYNDROME

After documenting the wide range of psychopathology and impairment of intellectual functioning in earlier contributions, the present report from long-term observations of an extended cohort of children with Fet al Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) deals with correlates of psychopathology and intelligence in these children. At preschool age, severity of morphol ogical damage, the type of milieu, sex and IQ were significant predict ors of psychopathology. In another subgroup of school-aged children, t hese associations were less strong; only severity of morphological dam age and IQ still correlated to some extent significantly with psychopa thology. Intelligence was significantly impaired in those children wit h severe morphological damage who were raised in institutions.