Conjuring a New Category of Disability from Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Are the Infants Unique Biological or Caretaking Casualties?

Y

28

Behavior Disorders; Biological Influences; Classification; Clinical Diagnosis; Cocaine; Congenital Impairments; Drug Abuse; Family Environment; Family Programs; Infants; Labeling (of Persons); Neurological Impairments; Prenatal Drug Exposure; Young Children

0271-1214

A review of the literature on biological and environmental effects of cocaine use suggests that the classification of infants and young children as prenatally cocaine exposed is neither descriptive nor predictive of behavior. The classification of behavior rather than labeling of the child is encouraged, as are partnerships with families of cocaine-exposed infants. (DB)

1992

EJ441307