Do I Have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. How is fetal alcohol syndrome generally evaluated?
Through a comprehensive assessment that may consider prenatal history, growth, facial features, and neurodevelopment
With a routine blood test that detects past prenatal alcohol exposure
By checking whether every commonly listed behavioral trait is present
Through an intelligence test alone
2. What causes fetal alcohol syndrome?
Alcohol exposure during infancy
Alcohol exposure during prenatal development
Low birth weight from any cause
A single inherited gene variant
3. An adult recognizes several FASD-related traits in an online list. What is the most appropriate conclusion?
FAS cannot be considered in adulthood, so no evaluation would be useful.
Matching several traits is enough to confirm FAS if they have been present since childhood.
An online facial-feature comparison can confirm or exclude FAS.
The traits justify discussing a comprehensive evaluation with an FASD-informed clinician, but they do not establish a diagnosis.
4. A caregiver asks what accommodations can do for a person with FASD-related challenges. Which answer is most accurate?
They reverse prenatal changes if used consistently enough.
Individualized structure, repetition, environmental adjustments, and skill support can improve day-to-day functioning without being a cure.
The same accommodation plan works equally well for everyone with FASD.
Accommodations are useful only when a person has below-average intelligence.
5. How are fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) related?
FAS is a specific diagnosis within the broader group described as FASD.
They are two names for exactly the same diagnosis.
FASD refers only to mild cases, while FAS refers to severe cases.
FAS is diagnosed in children, while FASD is diagnosed only in adults.
6. Why does the timing of prenatal alcohol exposure matter?
Different structures develop at different times, while brain development continues throughout pregnancy.
Alcohol can affect development only after all major organs have formed.
Exposure matters only during the week before birth.
Timing matters only for determining a child's eventual height.
7. Someone wonders whether lifelong learning and self-management difficulties could relate to prenatal alcohol exposure. What is the most useful next step?
Assume the cause must be FAS because the difficulties began early in life.
Use a consumer ancestry test to confirm whether alcohol exposure occurred.
Rely on photographs to make the determination without reviewing functional history.
Gather relevant developmental, medical, school, and family-history information and consult an appropriately trained clinician.
8. Which collection of information would be most useful during a professional FASD evaluation?
A blood-alcohol test and one current school grade
A recent photograph and a list of current hobbies
Available prenatal and medical history, growth records, developmental history, school information, and standardized functional assessments
Only the person's memory of how much alcohol exposure occurred prenatally
9. A student with FASD repeatedly loses track during long verbal instructions. Which classroom response is most consistent with supportive practice?
Break directions into concrete steps, add visual cues, and check understanding.
Remove all academic expectations until the difficulty disappears.
Use consequences each time a step is forgotten to build motivation.
Increase the amount of verbal detail so the student learns to retain more at once.
10. Which set lists the three characteristic facial features considered in established FAS diagnostic frameworks?
A broad forehead, prominent chin, and full upper lip
Wide-set eyes, a deep philtrum, and a narrow nose
Low-set ears, arched eyebrows, and a cleft chin
Short palpebral fissures, a smooth philtrum, and a thin upper lip
11. What happens to alcohol when a pregnant person drinks?
The placenta blocks alcohol from reaching fetal circulation.
Alcohol crosses the placenta, and the developing fetus has limited ability to metabolize it.
The fetus generally breaks down alcohol faster than an adult does.
Alcohol reaches the fetus only during the final trimester.
12. A person drank alcohol before realizing they were pregnant. Which response best follows health guidance?
Continue the same amount because exposure has already occurred.
Switch to beer because it does not carry the same concern as spirits.
Stop drinking and discuss the exposure honestly with a prenatal healthcare professional without assuming an outcome.
Wait until after delivery to mention it, because clinicians cannot offer guidance.
13. Which statement about facial features and FASD is accurate?
Everyone affected by prenatal alcohol exposure develops the characteristic FAS facial pattern.
Any unusual facial feature is evidence of prenatal alcohol exposure.
Facial features alone show how strongly a person's daily functioning is affected.
Some conditions within FASD can occur without the characteristic facial features of FAS.
14. Which statement best reflects established public-health guidance about alcohol during pregnancy?
Small amounts of wine are considered safe after the first trimester.
No amount, timing, or type of alcohol has been established as safe during pregnancy.
Only distilled spirits are associated with fetal alcohol effects.
A safe limit can be calculated from the pregnant person's body weight.
15. Why is a comprehensive evaluation important when FASD is being considered?
It guarantees that the exact timing and amount of prenatal exposure can be reconstructed.
It allows one physical feature to replace developmental and functional assessment.
Learning, attention, behavior, and adaptive difficulties can overlap with other conditions and life experiences.
It determines diagnosis solely by comparing a person with others of the same age.
16. A child has average general intelligence but struggles to shift tasks, control impulses, and follow multistep plans. What does this example illustrate?
Executive-function difficulties specifically prove prenatal alcohol exposure.
Average intelligence excludes all conditions within FASD.
Neurodevelopmental effects can involve executive functioning even when a single overall intelligence score is average.
Such difficulties are relevant only if characteristic facial features are also obvious.