Professional Reading: Educating Children and Young People With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
(Book Depository Review)
Informed by the very latest research and written by leading experts in the field, Educating Children and Young People with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders will prove invaluable for experienced teachers and teaching assistants who are engaging in Continuing Professional Development, as well as newly qualified and training Initial Teacher Training students.
The range of learning difficulties associated with children who have fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) has been highlighted as an emerging but little understood area of Special Educational Needs.
This engaging, timely, and highly practical book will raise awareness about FASDs and their associated difficulties across the entire education workforce. It provides a range of specialist, practical tried-and-tested teaching and learning strategies, from which teachers and support staff may construct personalised learning plans for students with FASDs, and will help improve outcomes for all their children. It also explains the impact that FASDs can have on the child's brain; discusses the overlapping and co-existing disorders, such as ADHD and autism spectrum disorders; shows how to support and empower teachers; provides ready-to-use teaching resources and strategies that can be used directly in the classroom.
This engaging, timely, and highly practical book will raise awareness about FASDs and their associated difficulties across the entire education workforce. It provides a range of specialist, practical tried-and-tested teaching and learning strategies, from which teachers and support staff may construct personalised learning plans for students with FASDs, and will help improve outcomes for all their children. It also explains the impact that FASDs can have on the child's brain; discusses the overlapping and co-existing disorders, such as ADHD and autism spectrum disorders; shows how to support and empower teachers; provides ready-to-use teaching resources and strategies that can be used directly in the classroom.
Personal Reflection:
I found this text helpful in better understanding students who may present as having behavioural, social, communication, physical or cognitive difficulties. Children with Fetal Alcohol may not necessarily have the typical facial features. It depends on which part of the pregnancy they were exposed to alcohol. They may also have heart, legs, brain issues. Prenatally, babies are exposed to the effects of alcohol for a longer period than the mother because they are basically surrounded by it and drawing from it for a long time. The text is helpful in prompting me, as SENCO, to investigate the cause for students' behaviours, in far greater depth rather than looking mainly at symptoms of ASD or ADHD or cognitive delay. I would recommend this text for educators.
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