Dr. Melissa Dobson calls herself a reluctant “snowplow mom” – a term for people who actively engage with teachers and administrators at school to remove obstacles for their children.
https://mentalhealthcommission.ca/catalyst/from-diagnosis-to-dignity-rethinking-support-for-people-with-fasd/
European FASD Alliance - New Educational
Videos on FASD
The Research Group “Implicación del Balance Oxidativo en la Salud:
Alcoholismo y Síndrome Metabólico” (CTS-193) – IBOSAM at the University of
Seville has released two new educational animation videos focused on Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
https://www.eufasd.org/news/new-educational-videos-on-fasd/
London Free Press (Canada) - Using puppets,
group aims to teach kids about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Four renowned Canadian puppeteers are in London this week shooting a video
series aimed at raising awareness about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/using-puppets-group-aims-to-teach-kids-about-fetal-alcohol-syndrome
newsday.co.za (South Africa) - Critical
South African NGO forced to close its doors
The Foundation for Alcohol Related Research (FARR) has been forced to shut
down by May 2026 due to a lack of funding for its work.
https://newsday.co.za/south-africa/14996/critical-south-african-ngo-forced-to-close-its-doors/
Health Digest (USA) - The Trump Admin's New
Alcohol Guidelines Cause Confusion And The Health Effects Could Be Dire
According to reporting from Newsweek, on January 7, 2026, the Trump
administration released new dietary advice to the American public. And as part
of these recommendations, came some alterations in alcohol consumption
guidelines that have public health experts doing a double-take.
https://www.healthdigest.com/2074059/trump-admin-new-alcohol-guidelines-confusion-health-effects-dire/
Cree Health - LOOK BEYOND FASD
Alcohol is a known teratogen. A teratogen is a substance that disturbs the
development of an embryo or fetus by changing the DNA at any point during the
40 weeks of pregnancy.
https://creehealth.org/look-beyond-fasd
FASD United - The FASD Self-Advocate Guide
Work with yourself, not against. This guide is carefully crafted to be
empowering, interactive, and useful. It is designed to help individuals with
PAE recognize their worth and understand more about themselves and experiences
with FASD.
https://fasdunited.org/the-fasd-self-advocate-guide/
VIDEOS
FASDSUCCESS - FASD and Mental Health: Dr. Carly McMorris
In this episode of The FASD Success Show, Jeff Noble talks with Dr. Carly
McMorris, clinical psychologist, associate professor at the University of
Calgary, and one of Canada’s top FASD researchers, about one of the most urgent
and misunderstood topics in the FASD world: mental health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtKaUConjq4
Patricia Kasper, Your FASD Coach - FASD:
More Than IQ
Many people with FASD have days when we do better than on other days: we
remember more, we accomplish more, etc. Because people can't "see"
our disabilities, our best days become the measure of our potential, no matter
if that level of performance had been an outlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9FDE9GxBaM
FASDSUCCESS - FASD and Adulthood: Why
Independence Is the Wrong Goal
In this episode of The FASD Success Show, Jeff Noble sits down with Chris
Fillion, an adult on the FASD spectrum, advocate, and leader who is living
proof that success does not require total independence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irjoE-iwiS0
CanFASD - FASD Housing Solutions – Part 2
Putting our Knowledge into Action
Discover how insights from the CHOoSE research initiative were transformed
into the CHOoSE Housing Website – a practical, innovative resource designed to
support individuals with FASD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei174ML6ydQ
New Jersey Self-Advocacy Program - Invisible
Sentences: FASD, Stigma, and the Overlooked Connection to Incarceration
Invisible and Incarcerated explores how Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
(FASD) are often misunderstood or completely overlooked, and how this can push
young people from school challenges into discipline, punishment, and eventually
the justice system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GMejEY1hDE
FASD United - FASD United Policy Forum -
December 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-w2JSfsPhc
Patricia Kasper, Your FASD Coach - Understanding
Perseveration in FASD with Tami Eller
In this episode of Living with FASD, host Patti and guest Tami Eller
discuss the complexities of living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD),
focusing on the concept of perseveration, which refers to the tendency to get
stuck on certain thoughts or activities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0aNsRrR_Oc
Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New
York - Workshop 3A: Quirking It With Fetal Alcohol with Rebecca Tillou
This presentation will take the audience through Rebecca’s adoptee journey
to discovering who her birth mom was, and her addiction. It will discuss Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, which are two and a half times as common as Autism
in the United States, and known as an invisible disability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOsY4uaCWaY
Alan Price - FASD and early life adversity
webinar with Alan Price
Webinar delivered for the Voice of the Families group, Monday 19th January
2026.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRokP0kWszU
FASD Florida Center - FASD Collective -
Shifts That Work: Thinking differently when they are raging, lying, or stealing
When thinking about lying, raging, and stealing, our caregivers have some
tips that helped them navigate through the tough times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ogtiFIico
Justice For Orphans - The AFCJ Podcast -
Ep. 514 - Nutrition Series with Dr. Jerrod Brown - Part 2: FASD
On this episode, host Sandra Flach, brings you the second part in her
4-part series on Nutrition with Dr. Jerrod Brown. Today Dr. Brown unpacks the
vital role nutrition plays in the brain and body of individuals with Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeh6Hw6sjxI
NEXUS TALES - What alcohol does to you
during pregnancy FASD
Alcohol does a lot to a child (fetus) during pregnancy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgODUBaUodw
RESEARCH
Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care - Diagnosis across
the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) continuum
This narrative review examines recent advances in the clinical diagnosis of
FASD and highlights areas for future research aimed at improving diagnostic
precision.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1538544225001853
Public Health Reports - Foster Care Status
and the Timing of Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in a Medicaid Sample
Children in foster care had substantial delays in diagnosis compared with
children not in foster care. Initial access to behavioral assessment appears
equitable; however, barriers exist in the progression from assessment to
diagnosis for children in foster care.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00333549251403892
medRxiv - Changes in neuronal genes in
prenatally alcohol-exposed placentas correlate with neuropsychological traits
at the age of six
Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) disrupts embryonic development and gives
rise to a variable fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) phenotype
characterized by neurodevelopmental and dysmorphological defects.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.21.26344516v2
Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human
Reproduction - Prenatal alcohol exposure and sonographic abnormalities:
Insights from a retrospective cohort
Ultrasound anomalies were found in one-third of alcohol-exposed
pregnancies, underscoring the risks of chronic alcohol use.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468784726000218
Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Caregiver-reported
evaluation for and diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the United
States
These nationally representative, caregiver-reported estimates for children
with an FASD diagnosis are lower than those from active case ascertainment
studies, suggesting efforts are needed to improve the screening, evaluation,
and diagnosis process for children suspected of an FASD.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871626000360
Available at SSRN - Needs of Professionals
Working with Individuals with FASD in Catalonia (Spain)
Prenatal alcohol exposure is one of the main preventable causes of
developmental disorders and health anomalies in children. Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a diagnostic term that encompasses a range of
physical, cognitive, and behavioural impairments.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6030950
University of Edinburgh - Dual psychometric
evaluation of measures assessing attitudes towards prenatal alcohol exposure
and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Results indicate that both measures, when used at the total-scale level,
can acceptably assess attitudes towards PAE and FASD. Revisions are required at
the item-level to further improve subfactor internal consistency and minimise
ceiling effect likelihood.
https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/dual-psychometric-evaluation-of-measures-assessing-attitudes-towa/
Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent
Health Care - The evaluation and care of children with suspected fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders in the pediatric medical home: The importance of
therapeutic alliance, longitudinal surveillance and trauma-informed care
The evaluation and management of children with prenatal alcohol exposure
and suspected fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) requires a
multidisciplinary approach, grounded in the pediatric medical home.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1538544225001865
BMC Public Health - Safe start, a hybrid
intervention to reduce alcohol exposed pregnancies: protocol for a randomized
controlled trial
Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) increases the risk for serious adverse
birth outcomes and long-term neurodevelopmental, physical, and mental health
outcomes, known under the umbrella term of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
(FASD).
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-025-26044-2
Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Comparative Characteristics of Morphometric Changes in the Brain Tissue
Caused by Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Hypoxia
According to current knowledge, hypoxia is a key mechanism mediating the
detrimental effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on the nervous tissue.
However, comparative analysis of these interrelated conditions has only been
partially addressed.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10517-026-06568-2
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Chaos im Kopf Podcast - Dein FASD Podcast (Germany) - Sexuelle Bildung und
FASD (C91)
Sexualität ist ein Menschenrecht – doch gerade im Kontext FASD herrscht oft
Sprachlosigkeit, Scham und Überforderung. In dieser Episode spreche ich mit
Sabine Stein, Fachkraft für sexuelle Bildung, über die Besonderheiten sexueller
Bildung bei Menschen mit fetalen Alkoholspektrumstörungen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iixWpu9_EJE
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