More than 300 families with concerns that their young children may be suffering from foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) have reached out for help to a national support service since the start of this year.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41809820.html
Midwest Radio (Ireland) - FASD recognition
for Roscommon NS
Ballinlough National School in Roscommon has made national history by
becoming the first school in Ireland to be formally recognised as an ‘FASD
Aware School’, following the completion of the FASD in the Classroom training
programme by its entire staff team.
https://www.midwestradio.ie/news/fasd-recognition-for-roscommon-ns/
KBTX News 3 - Dad’s health matters too:
Texas A&M research reveals paternal choices shape a child’s lifelong health
A father’s health before conception could determine his child’s lifelong
health outcomes, according to research from Texas A&M University that
challenges the singular focus on maternal health.
https://www.kbtx.com/2026/02/27/dads-health-matters-too-texas-am-research-reveals-paternal-choices-shape-childs-lifelong-health/
FASD United (USA) - The Need for State
Advocacy
Understanding where fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)is being
addressed within your state’s systems is essential to improving how people with
FASD and their families are supported.
https://nofaspolicycenter.org/the-need-for-state-advocacy/
CanFASD (Canada) - Everything you need to
know about Bill S-234: Canada’s path to a National FASD Framework
Canada has a critical opportunity to transform how we prevent, diagnose,
and support people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). With Bill
S-234, the Federal Government can establish a coordinated, evidence-based
national framework for FASD, a long-standing priority for families, advocates,
researchers, and service providers across the country.
https://canfasd.ca/2026/03/04/everything-you-need-to-know-about-bill-s-234-canadas-path-to-a-national-fasd-framework/
Australian Government - Australia's mothers
and babies
The consumption of alcohol is widespread within Australia and entwined with
many social and cultural activities. Alcohol consumption in pregnancy can lead
to poorer perinatal outcomes including low birthweight, being small for
gestational age, pre-term birth and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)
(NHMRC 2020).
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mothers-babies/contents/antenatal-period/alcohol
VIDEOS
NEOMED: Project ECHO - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) in Youth:
Best Practices in Screening & Treatment - SoC ECHO
The information shared during this presentation solely represents the
opinions and expertise of the presenter and is not that of Northeast Ohio
Medical University unless expressly stated otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZZ5eyFgDW8
FASD Hub Australia - Supporting adolescents
with FASD: Tips for secondary educators
Presented by the FASD Hub and Learning with FASD, this webinar focused on
practical strategies for supporting adolescents with FASD in secondary
settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COuptxNHotY
Creating a Family - Raising a Child With
FASD To Thrive
Are you raising a child with known prenatal exposure to alcohol? Does your
child have a diagnosis for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder? Listen to this
conversation with Barb Clark, Founder and CEO of FASD Mosaic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXBZOVbHaDQ
Undivided - FASD in IEPs
Supporting a child with FASD is so important, and it can also feel
incredibly hard when schools don’t fully understand brain-based differences or
aren’t sure how FASD fits into special education categories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TynwpDlv9Ho
NCFE - Teaching Assistant (TA) Forum:
Raising awareness of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
This informative, CPD event will focus on raising awareness of fetal
alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03R1wk5Bao
The Australian Alcohol and Other Drugs Council
- The Australian Alcohol and Other Drugs Council
Would you like to learn more about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
in an AOD service context? Do you want
to build your confidence in working with people who have been diagnosed or have
possible FASD?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzX25RXU-bA
Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New
York - Workshop 8B: Living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders as a
Caregiver | AFFCNY
Children prenatally exposed to alcohol become adults with FASD.
Understanding that the permanent brain damage caused by prenatal alcohol
exposure may be the reasons individuals with FASD fail in school, treatment, in
the workforce, and with relationships, can help us to form strategies that may
work and help the individual have a successful, happy life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq021c3brho
Patricia Kasper, Your FASD Coach - Understanding
Cognitive Rigidity with Eileen Devine
In this episode of Living with FASD, host Patti Kasper welcomes Eileen
Devine, a prominent figure in the FASD community and host of the Brain First
Parenting podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBr3ZsiitT0
Patricia Kasper, Your FASD Coach - Empowering
Change: Shannon's Insights on FASD and Mental Health
In this episode of Living with FASD, Shannon returns to share her journey
over the past three years since her last appearance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7aPZSw5J4E
Leibniz-Institut – BIPS - Community-based
counseling against alcohol consumption during pregnancy
At the BIPS Institute Seminar, Petal Petersen Williams presented a
community-based counseling program that addresses alcohol consumption during
pregnancy in South Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmm0U7Le34c
RESEARCH
Frontiers in Psychology - A randomised controlled study of Dog Assisted
Therapy: comparing a short and a long version for patients with Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder
The present randomised controlled trial aimed to compare the therapeutic
impact of a short version (8 weekly sessions) versus a long version (16
sessions) of a manualised DAT protocol on clinical, functional, and family
outcomes in children and adolescents with FASD.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1720834/abstract
PloS one - A register-based study of
long-term health and social care costs among children with prenatal alcohol
exposure
Early diagnosis of FASD may mitigate secondary complications and associated
costs emerging in adolescence. Prevention policies are urgently needed at
primary, secondary and tertiary level.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0332113
Journal of Pediatric Neuropsychology - An
updated fetal alcohol spectrum disorder assessment protocol for the forensic
context
This article updates a recommended model protocol for assessing fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders in the forensic context, which was originally
proposed in 2010 to operationalize that specialized process (Novick Brown et
al., 2010) and expanded in a textbook (Novick Brown, 2021).
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-39217-001
Medical Journal of Australia - Australian
Guidelines for Assessment and Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder:
Overview of the Development Process and Revised Diagnostic Criteria
The guidelines include 11 GRADE-based recommendations, forming the core of
the diagnostic criteria, and 11 lived experience statements, supporting
client-centred assessment approaches. The guidelines also feature 40 good
practice statements and 18 implementation considerations, tools and tips as
practical resources and supports for practitioners.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.5694/mja2.70159
Journal of Neurochemistry - Iron Depletion
in the Substantia Nigra of Children With Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
These exploratory findings provide the first evidence in humans that PAE
alters brain iron homeostasis, highlighting iron metabolism as a potentially
modifiable pathway contributing to the neurodevelopmental burden of FASD.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jnc.70390
Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine
- Updating guidelines for the diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
(FASD) in Poland
The updated national guidelines may improve the quality and standardization
of FASD diagnosis not only in Poland, but also worldwide. The practical utility
of each recommendation should be continuously monitored, validated, and
updated.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41784045/
The Journal of Pediatrics - A National
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Learning Collaborative for Pediatric Care
Teams
The SAFEST Choice program successfully trained pediatric healthcare teams
in two year-long FASD learning collaboratives with high levels of
participation. Participants had increased self-reported knowledge, confidence,
and practice change related to FASD identification and care.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950541026000050
Behavioural Sciences & the Law - FASD
and Intellectual Disability Equivalence: A Meta-Analysis of Suggestibility
During Forensic Interviews
Intellectual disability (ID) equivalence describes conditions in which
individuals function cognitively and adaptively at levels comparable to ID
without meeting IQ-based diagnostic criteria.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bsl.70052
International Journal of Addiction Nursing - Development
of the Safe Start Intervention: A Computer- and Nurse-Delivered Alcohol
Reduction Intervention for Pregnant Women
Interventions to reduce alcohol use during pregnancy that can be integrated
within prenatal care are urgently needed. If efficacious in reducing alcohol
use, the Safe Start intervention offers the promise of a brief, cost-effective,
easily disseminated intervention for pregnant women who consume alcohol.
https://journals.lww.com/jan/abstract/9900/development_of_the_safe_start_intervention__a.20.aspx
Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research - Prenatal
alcohol exposure, birthweight, and externalizing behavior in children: Insights
from sex-stratified four-way decomposition
Early identification and intervention for children with PAE have been shown
to mitigate the risk of more severe secondary impacts.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/acer.70266
Brain Imaging and Behavior - Associations
between white matter micro- and macro-structure and attention in 6-7-year-old
children with low to moderate prenatal alcohol exposure
This study investigated white matter correlates of attention in children
with low to moderate levels of prenatal alcohol exposure and controls whose
mothers abstained from alcohol.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12935816/
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