Sorry folks, but I have laryngitis this week. Tune in next Wednesday for the next installment of the FASD Elephant Podcast. In the meantime, I found an interesting website from Germany that has an animated FAS Facial Feature program, in which you can manipulate the various FAS Facial Features and visually compare them to an [...]
Thinking about obtaining an FASD Evaluation? Today’s podcast talks about how to prepare for one. These evaluations often have long waiting lists and take just as long to complete. Here is a guide on how you can prepare for an evaluation, make it as thorough as possible, and hopefully speed the process up a bit. [...]
Today’s podcast reviews the Ten Brain Domains of FAS and FASD in a little more depth; it is still an overview but gives more flesh to the domains in the context of completing an FASD Wheel. This is the third of a multi-part series edited from a workshop on the FASD Wheel (TM) presented at [...]
Today’s podcast reviews brain functioning and how it can be impacted by FASD. In order to truly understand FASD behaviors and interventions, one must truly understand how the brain works (at least the basics). Otherwise, we forget the FASD brain is injured and make those misattributions–and poor choices for interventions–that create worse outcomes… frustration, anger, [...]
Today’s podcast reviews useful metaphors and non-useful misattributions regarding FASD. The information is critical in re-tooling how people can think differently about FASD and FAS, and it is great information for those newer to, and experienced with, FASD. This is the first of a multi-part series edited from a workshop on the FASD Wheel (TM) [...]
