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FASD and Suicidality This podcast episode is an excerpt of my part speaking on a panel titled “FASD & Suicidality” at the 2011 IHS/BIA/BIE/SAMHSA Action Summit for Suicide Prevention held in Scottsdale, AZ. Panelist Members (l to r): Michael Harris, Morgan Fawcett, Suzie Kuerschner, Kathryn Kelly, & Albert Allick Kay Kelly (Project Director of the [...]
Welcome to the FASD Elephant™ Podcast. Today we’re going to continue with the last half of my interview with Morgan Fawcett on May 25th, 2011. More details are in the previous podcast, number 13. Here are some websites to find more about Morgan, his CDs, and FASD: Morgan’s website for FASD advocacy: One Heart Creations [...]
Welcome to the FASD Elephant™ Podcast. After a hiatus for way too long, the podcast is back. I’ve had a very exciting year so far in the world of FASD. A major highlight in February 2011 was four days worth of workshops and talks I gave in Saskatchewan—for The Saskatoon Tribal Council in Saskatoon, for [...]
Sign up to receive a free “FASD Wheel Mini Manual” to download! I just re-designed and updated this mini-manual for the FASD Wheel™ in preparation of some great new changes and improvements coming over the next few weeks. It still helps if you’ve been to one of my classes (more on that in a few [...]
Morgan and his family are visiting Minnesota and he is speaking about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) to students at one of our local magnet schools yesterday and today. Tonight, he gives a lecture and concert to the public at the Indian Health Board. Here is a short video of one of his talks to [...]
Hi and welcome to the podcast and blog. It has been quite a while since the last entry, but now there is more time for at least the blog and an occasional podcast–maybe even some video–so I want to re-awaken that interest in understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), improve and increase workshop trainings and develop teleseminars, [...]
This is a supplementary hand-out that outlines all the information provided in Podcast #012 (FASD School Intervention: Getting Back to Ready).
A basic, but important, school intervention for FASD melt-downs is discussed.
Hello everyone, It has been quite a while since the last podcast, but we are ramping up production and will have new ones soon. In the meantime, here is a re-run podcast of an interview with Morgan Fawcett, a Native American flute player with FASD. You can now purchase his CDs from the internet, and [...]
People with FASD (including FAS) have both primary and secondary disabilities. Secondary disabilities are those disabilities that arise because of a mismatch between the brain damage and factors in the environment–they are not directly caused from the brain damage. Streissguth, et al (1996) conducted a four year study on the secondary disabilities of 415 individuals [...]
