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Claire D. Coles

Professor

Emory University School of Medicine

Claire D. Coles, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, and Director of the Center for Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Development (MSACD) and Mother2Baby. GA, a teratology information service that provides counseling and information about exposure to prescription and illicit drugs and well as a variety of environmental toxins. Dr. Coles founded the ENEC Clinic that provides diagnostic and intervention services to alcohol and drug exposed children. Her research focuses on the developmental and behavioral effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol and other drugs and on the interaction of these effects with the postnatal environment. With colleagues, Dr. Coles developed the MILE intervention program for addressing mathematics in children with FASD that is widely used in Canada. The GoFar program adapts the FAR technique to support better adaptive skills and behavior. Currently, Dr. Coles, as a part of the CIFASD, is following alcohol affected adults in midlife in three North American cities to identify long-term effects on health and cognition, and of the HBCD longitudinal study, which is following infants exposed to alcohol, opiates and other drugs and monitoring development through the first 10 years.

Talks

School Suspension and Grade Retention in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

It is often stated that at least 20% of school-aged children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) have been suspended from school. This study examined whether school… Read more