Episode #240 - FASD Success for Foster & Adoptive Parents

The majority of children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) are not raised by their birth parents. Children in foster care are 10-15 times more likely to be affected by prenatal alcohol exposure than other children (National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome NOFAS). Studies also indicate that 30% of children adopted from Eastern Europe have FASD.

 

Children with FASD are easily frustrated and require a highly structured home and school environment. Adjusting to a new home, family, and school can be especially difficult. These children often have difficulty:

• Translating body language & expressions
• Understanding boundaries
• Focusing their attention
• Understanding cause and effect
• Controlling impulses

 

Parents of children with FASD often find themselves frustrated, lacking resources, and feeling isolated—but there is help out there!

 

Host, Sandra Flach, sat down with Jeff Nobel, Founder & CEO of Nobel Initiatives which provides resources and support to help caregivers of someone with FASD. Jeff also hosts the FASD Success podcast and leads workshops for frontline workers, educators, and caregivers—including foster and adoptive parents. 

 

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Links mentioned in this episode:

FASD Success

National Org. on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome