The latest incarnation of the long-running campaign will focus on local teens suffering from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), said Caputo - who had the honour of kicking off Tuesday's events.
Medical Xpress - A family history of alcoholism may add to damaging effects of prenatal alcohol exposure
Prenatal exposure
to alcohol (PAE) can lead to serious deficiencies associated with
fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
(FASD), such as impairments in general intelligence, adaptive
function, verbal learning and memory, attention, executive function,
and visual-spatial functioning.
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New Zealand Doctor
Online (New Zealand) - BABIES + BOOZE – A Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder Youth Social Media Awareness Campaign
The risk to unborn
babies from alcohol has been making headlines for decades but Kiwis
don't seem to be heeding the warnings. At least 50 percent of women
think that drinking some alcohol during pregnancy is safe and 80
percent of teen pregnancies are alcohol exposed, according to New
Zealand surveys.
News-Medical.net -
Two Chicago students develop novel treatment method for fetal
alcohol syndrome
Two Chicago high
school students have developed a novel treatment method to reduce the
negative effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and a new
understanding of genetics behind the disease.
ABC (Australia) -
Psychology: drinking and pregnancy
Our resident
psychologist Damien Adler explains that in some cases drinking
alcohol while pregnant can lead to a very serious condition called
Fetal Alchohol Spectrum Syndrome.
11alive.com (USA)
- 6-year-old tries to find homes for foster kids
Hannah was born
with fetal alcohol syndrome. She had seizures and swelling of the
brain. She spent her early years in physical, occupation and speech
therapy. Her foster mother, Jennifer Daffron, says the pageant helped
Hannah deal with her fear of lights, crowds, and speaking to people.
It also got her thinking. Why wait to grow up when she could help
foster kids right now, by selling a very special calendar?
WHO - Congenital
anomalies
Congenital
anomalies are also known as birth defects, congenital disorders or
congenital malformations. Congenital anomalies can be defined as
structural or functional anomalies, including metabolic disorders,
which are present at the time of birth.
Kidskan (Canada) -
FASDlive 2012 Encore: Supporting women who may be at risk of
having a child with FASD
Trauma and the
value of empathy, patience and cultural competency were the major
themes at the post-conference symposium held on Sept. 14 as part of
the FASDLive 2012: Expanding our Vision conference.
COMING EVENTS
First International Conference on
Prevention of FASD
This is the first
international conference to address the primary, secondary, and
tertiary prevention of FASD.
Consensus Development Conference on
Legal Issues of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
This conference is
a 3-day juried hearing of evidence and scientific findings that
allows for the engagement and collaboration of citizens, decision
makers in government, and the justice system in addressing a specific
set of key questions on legal issues of FASD.
MATERIALS and
VIDEOS
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Womens
Project
A TVC addressing
Fetal Alcohol syndrome in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Academic backs alcohol bans in
Aboriginal communities
With Northern
Territory Chief Minister Terry Mills joining Queensland Premier
Campbell Newman in discussing an end to alcohol bans for Aboriginal
communities, prominent Indigenous academic Marcia Langton says the
evidence supports keeping restrictions in place.
Webinar - Overview
of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders FASD
The Key Worker Program
Anne Fuller and
Roxanne Hughes discuss the British Columbia Ministry of Children and
Families' Key Worker Program.
NOFAS - Luther
Robinson on FASD
The National
Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) is the leading voice
and resource of the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
community.
NOFAS - Dr.
Roger Zoorob on FASD - Southeast Regional Training Center
Department of
Justice (Canada) - A Collaborative, Holistic Response to Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
The Surrey &
Vancouver FASD Collaboration Roundtables project continues to make
progress on a problem that can be devastating to individuals and
families, expensive and largely invisible: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders, or FASD.
RESEARCH
Alcohol and
Alcoholism - The consequences of alcohol and pregnancy
recommendations
What should be the
public health messaging on drinking during pregnancy? The answer
isn’t clear-cut. We know that there is strong evidence that high
levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy harm the developing
fetus. However, we don’t know conclusively what the impact is of
lower level alcohol consumption. That is, we don’t know if there is
a truly safe level of alcohol use, nor do we know if the line between
safe and unsafe alcohol consumption is the same for all pregnant
women.
Alcoholism - A
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Spatial Working Memory
in Children with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Contribution of Familial
History of Alcohol Use Disorders
Heavy prenatal
alcohol exposure leads to widespread cognitive deficits, including
problems with spatial working memory (SWM). Neuroimaging studies
report structural and functional abnormalities in fetal alcohol
spectrum disorders (FASD), but interpretations may be complicated by
the co-occurrence of a family history of alcoholism.
Critical Public
Health (Finland) - The emergence of the foetus: discourses on
foetal alcohol syndrome prevention and compulsory treatment in
Finland
The scientific
discovery of foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) in the early 1970s made
pregnant women's heavy alcohol consumption problematic. A growing
concern over prenatal alcohol intake has made FAS a major public
health issue in the developed western countries and led to the
proliferation of practices that aim to prevent it.
University of
Lethbridge - Parental guide to FASD : a focus on a
multidisciplinary approach and communicating with professionals
Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder (FASD) can present many challenges for the
individual and their family as they work towards accessing the
appropriate supports. One major challenge in connecting with the
appropriate professionals is communication and informing the support
process from the perspective of the family.
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