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Best Practices Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Best Practices Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Diagnostic Categories. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Partial FAS Alcohol Related Birth Defects (ARBD) Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder (ARND). Visual Aids. 8:30am Café Get in line No side talking Be nice to café staff Eat

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Best Practices Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

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  1. Best Practices Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

  2. Diagnostic Categories • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) • Partial FAS • Alcohol Related Birth Defects (ARBD) • Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder (ARND)

  3. Visual Aids 8:30am Café • Get in line • No side talking • Be nice to café staff • Eat • Ask to dump tray • Line up 9:00am Group Behaviors • Review my star chart • Goals for the day 9:20am Prep for school • Grab school material • Line behavior • 9:30am In Class 7:30am Wake up/Clean up room • Make your bed • Fold your clothes  7:40am Hygiene • Get shower shoes • Line up for hygiene • Shower • Put clothes on • Brush teeth • Mouth wash 8:25am Prep for Breakfast • Line behavior

  4. Environmental Strategies • Structure • Balance between “minimalist environment” and some stimulation. • Predictability • Assigned Seating • Alert in Advance of Schedule Changes • Consistent Consequences

  5. Environmental Strategies • Recognize Retention Difficulties • Short Sentences • Teach 1 concept at time • Repeat What You Heard • Concrete Language • Multi-modality Instruction • Pictorial Cues of Tasks and Routines • Model Behavior

  6. Environmental Strategies • Repetition • Repeat • Repeat • Repeat • Monitored Level of Stimulation • Logical Consequence • Frequent Short Breaks • Re-direct Behavior (change the subject) • Acknowledge anger, over-stimulation

  7. Visual Aids Check List • Brush my teeth • Shower • Comb my hair • Change my clothes • Clean socks • Deodorant

  8. Psychological Testing • Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test • The PPVT-IV provides an estimate of the client's verbal intelligence and has been administered to groups who had reading or speech problems, had mental retardation, or were emotionally withdrawn. • Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, (Vineland-II) • A leading measure of personal and social skills needed for everyday living. • WISC/WAIS

  9. Lessons Learned • If they tell you they can’t do it, DO NOT accept that they can’t. • Fine and Gross Motor Skills • Combining shampoo bottles • Learning to tie shoe laces • Folding clothes • If they tell you “yes I understand” they probably don’t. • Concrete Thinking • The bubble

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