Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Aboriginal Health Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Workshops

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) workshops are held each year to present an innovative understanding of FASD that calls for more holistic and integrated approaches that consider all facets of the person – physical, developmental, and cognitive.

According to Malbin, if FASD is viewed as a physical disability (e.g. brain damage from prenatal exposure to alcohol/drugs) and the primary symptoms are learning and other behavioral characteristics, then children with FASD would benefit from appropriate environmental accommodations (e.g., modifying timelines, providing alternative instructional strategies, or recognizing developmental rather than chronological age) in a similar manner to accommodations made for more traditional physical disabilities (e.g., wheelchairs and ramps for people with paralysis). The shift in focus is seeing behaviors as symptoms, rather than as things to be changed. The process of implementation is enhanced by recognizing personal, historical, cultural, intellectual, institutional, and fiscal issues associated with each child.

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