NEWS
AND ARTICLES
NIH
(USA) - NIH statement on International FASD Awareness Day
International
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Day, recognized
every year on the ninth day of the ninth month, is an important
reminder that prenatal alcohol exposure is the leading preventable
cause of birth defects and developmental disorders in the United
States.
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CDC (USA) - Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day
September 9th is
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) Awareness Day. Drinking
alcohol during pregnancy can cause FASDs. Read about Melissa’s
experience with alcohol use during pregnancy. Information about the
new FASD app is also provided.
WellandTribune
(Canada) - Give children with FASD opportunities to shine
Five years ago, if
someone had told Melanie her adopted daughter would win three gold
medals in a figure skating competition, she would have laughed. Her
daughter, now nine years old, was born with fetal alcohol spectrum
disorder — an umbrella term used to describe the issues experienced
by someone whose mother drank during pregnancy.
The
Chronicle Journal (Canada) - Fetal alcohol syndrome
awareness on the rise
It takes a
community to raise a child and to heal a child. Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder is a life-long illness that not only requires
physical care, but spiritual care as well.
CBS Atlanta (USA)
- At Emory University, experts try new approach to treating fetal
alcohol syndrome
Health experts
from the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a recommendation last
week that every child be screened for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. It is
believed that nearly one in every three women drink while they're
pregnant, and experts at Emory University have started a new approach
to the treatment of those babies born with FAS.
The Canberra Times
(Australia) - Alcohol in pregnancy warning
Drinking alcohol
during pregnancy can be more damaging to an unborn child than smoking
or consuming other potential toxins, according to a leading expert on
foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
The New Age Online
(South Africa) - Sobriety Week hopes to reduce high FAS statistics
As South Africa
marks its annual Sobriety Week, the DA in the province says it is
“deeply concerned that (alcohol abuse in pregnancy) statistics
remain unacceptably high”.
RESOURCES
NOFAS-UK
- Resources for teachers
Below is a list of
resources about the issues and challenges faced by students with FASD
and those working with them in UK educational settings.
NOFAS-UK -
Educating Children and Young People with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders: Constructing Personalised Pathways to Learning
The range of
learning difficulties associated with children and young people who
have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) has been highlighted as
an emerging but little understood area of Special Educational Needs.
SSAT - Complex
Learning Difficulties and Disabilities (CLDD) research project
The Department for
Education identified through feedback from schools that educators
needed a new teaching and learning framework to meet the needs of
children and young people with Complex Learning Difficulties and
Disabilities (CLDD). SSAT was commissioned to develop resources to
support schools in educating these children.
CCSA
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Readings and
Resources
This page is
intended to support Canadian practitioners addressing FASD by:
Providing recent,
accurate information on the important and complex issue of substance
use and pregnancy through this Web section and through a toll-free
telephone information and reference service; and Serving as a gateway
to other credible Canadian sources of information.
Human Relations
Media - UNDERSTANDING FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME
In this video,
viewers meet Liz, a teenager who is afflicted with Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome (FAS) because her mother drank alcohol during her pregnancy.
FAS represents a spectrum of physical and emotional disorders that
occur because of alcohol poisoning before birth.
NCBI (USA) -
Resources for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
RESEARCH
Pediatrics
- Blood Alcohol Levels for American Indian Mothers and
Newborns
Very little is
known about the alcohol elimination rates of newborns who have had
chronic alcohol exposure in utero. In these case reports, blood
alcohol levels were taken immediately before delivery, at delivery,
and postdelivery for 2 mothers who drank alcohol during their
pregnancies and 3 single-birth newborns.
elmadrassa -
Children with fetal disorders (FASD) have more severe behavioral
problems that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD), according to a study
Our results show
that, overall, children with FASD have more severe behavioral
problems, said Bush. In terms of social cognition and emotional
processing, the base deficit in FASD appears to be the understanding
and interpretation of another state of mind and emotions.
Hindawi - Severe
Gastrooesophageal Reflux Disease Associated with Foetal Alcohol
Syndrome
Prenatal alcohol
exposure may have adverse effects on the developing foetus resulting
in significant growth restriction, characteristic craniofacial
features, and central nervous system dysfunction. The toxic effects
of alcohol on the developing brain are well recognised.
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