Training – Understanding FASD
Brief training on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Learning the Dance: Community Making a Difference
This video is the story of how two schools have focused on relationships, built upon strengths, and reframed behaviours in order to support two students with FASD to find success and a sense of belonging within the school community.
Tips for Justice Professionals
Interacting with Individuals who have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
LEIC Planning Tool
The LEIC Planning page is an informal tool that was created by the POPFASD team. It incorporates information from the field of FASD and effective student planning practices. The purpose for the tool is to guide a constructive and positive conversation about a student, focusing on the student’s strengths and needs. The tool is most effectively used when all team members have a solid understanding of FASD.
Living with FASD (in French)
“Living with FAS” is the France-based association for adoptive, biological, and foster families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Vitalité Health Network
Vitalité Health Network is a regional health authority providing and managing health care and services in an area covering northern and southeastern New Brunswick.
Educ’alcool
Éduc’alcool’s mission is to inform Quebecers about alcohol consumption and encourage them to adopt healthy habits. Are you concerned about your drinking? There are resources that can help!
Winter Holiday Toolkit
The holidays can be a tricky time for those who have FASD and their support systems, and people who are pregnant or breastfeeding. We have created a holiday toolkit with suggestions for affordable activities, mocktail recipes, reducing or declining alcohol, suggestions for managing sensory overload, and navigating alcohol conversations.
Lived experience of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A qualitative scoping review
FASD is a lifelong disability that affects individuals, their caregivers, and families on a daily basis. Individuals with FASD are aware of their disability and can be left feeling different and isolated, while caregivers have to negotiate the daily challenge of parenting a child with FASD. Despite these challenges, individuals with FASD have talents and qualities; raising a child with FASD can bring joy to both caregivers and families. Professionals feel unprepared and overwhelmed when supporting someone with FASD because of a lack of knowledge, funding, and support for individuals living with FASD.
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnostic clinic capacity in Canadian Provinces and territories
“…This study examined the capacity for interdisciplinary team diagnosis of FASD across selected provinces and territories in Canada. Capacity.. has either remained stable or fallen in all jurisdictions studied between 2015 and 2019..This study revealed that approximately 98% of cases of FASD are underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed, which is supported by previous publications…”
An Empirical Examination of Confabulation in Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Confabulation is when missing memories are unwittingly filled in with distorted or fabricated information. This has been shown to lead to incorrect information in legal cases involving suspects, witnesses or victims of crime. This study is the first to experimentally explore confabulation in adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum
disorders (FASD).
Access to oral health care for children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: a cross-sectional study
The objective of this cross-sectional study is to examine the use of oral health care services by children diagnosed with FASD in Saskatchewan, Canada, and to identify perceived barriers that affect their access to oral health care.
