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 [...]
This is a supplementary hand-out that outlines all the information provided in Podcast #012 (FASD School Intervention: Getting Back to Ready).
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 [...]
People with FASD (including FAS) have both primary and secondary disabilities. Primary disabilities are those with which the person is born, such as seizures, sensory integration problems, etc. These are a direct result of the brain damage from prenatal alcohol exposure, and the topic of today’s podcast. There are three types of Primary Disabilities in [...]
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 [...]
