September is ‘International FASD Awareness Month’. Our local parent-led support group FASD Hub South West share some great resources, events and training.
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) – support, and how you can help raise awareness
Our local parent-led support group FASD South West share suggestions about how you can help raise awareness about FASD – everyone can play a part!
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: FASD Hub South West
FASD Hub South West is a parent-led support group for adoptive parents of children, young people, and adults with or without a formal diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) across the South West of England.
New resource for supporting sensory needs
Becoming a sensory detective can help you to identify if there is a pattern to your child’s sensory needs, and recognise how they react to sensory information. This resource has a great breakdown of needs, as well as sensory strategies to try in school and at home.
FASD – disability or learning difficulty?
A new factsheet on FASD – diagnosis of disability or learning difficulty has just been published by the FASD Network, working collaboratively with FASD Hub South West to help families navigate the terminology and to seek additional support where needed
How can we support dissociative children and young people?
In the run up to Christmas, FASD Hub South West thought it would be helpful to come away from the tinsel and to link with professionals where we aim to focus on some bitesize techniques to support trauma responses that we might see in schools, and at home, with children and young people. Children and […]
FASD Awareness Month: Do you feel like you need a magic wand?
What is the ‘Right to Choose’?
Feedback from our Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) online workshop
Cassie’s passion and ongoing research into FASD led her in sharing more about:
Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and how does alcohol impact it?
Why is it so hard for a child with FASD to keep it together in challenging situations?
How can we help support a flipping lid with a child with FASD?