Table 6.
Diagnostic features of young people completing full fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) assessment
| Total completing FASD assessment (N=99), n (%) | Diagnosed with FASD N=36, n (%) |
Not diagnosed with FASD N=63, n (%) |
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| Neurodevelopmental domains impaired* | |||
| Academic achievement | 61 (62) | 31 (86) | 30 (48) |
| Attention | 54 (55) | 26 (72) | 28 (44) |
| Executive function | 53 (54) | 28 (78) | 25 (40) |
| Language | 45 (45) | 25 (69) | 20 (32) |
| Memory | 38 (38) | 20 (56) | 18 (29) |
| Motor skills | 29 (29) | 18 (50) | 11 (17) |
| Cognition | 21 (21) | 13 (36) | 8 (13) |
| Communication† | 6 (6) | 4 (11) | 2 (3) |
| Brain structure/neurology | 1 (1) | 0 | 1 (2) |
| Number of sentinel facial features | |||
| 0 | 73 (74) | 21 (58) | 52 (83) |
| 1 | 14 (14) | 9 (25) | 5 (8) |
| 2 | 12 (12) | 6 (17) | 6 (9) |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
*Domains according to the Australian Guide to the Diagnosis of FASD, excluding affect regulation.27
†Twenty-nine young people with FASD and 52 without FASD did not have this domain assessed.