FASD vid Flashcards
CJ
multiple medical porblems
- should have been disabled
- deficits in thinking and understadning
- try to get over it people say (shes gullible or easily manipulated)
- ex: girls said a person was nasty so she cut up all her clothes***
- features soften and iys harder to tell if you have FAS
- needs to be diagnosed at brth to be seen –> post pardem (problem: women may not be honest on drinking) –> so diganosed FAS is an UNDERESTIMATION
alcohol is more toxic than coke or heorine (crosses placenta)
- CNS, retarded groth, mild LD, brain damage, poor judgement, inability to understand courses of action
cilderen diagnoses before 8 have better chance (get treatment they need early)
- FAE –> showed some of the FAS symptoms
- replaced by FADS (makes it more of a spectrum now)
irrreversible , no cure, normal IQ but harder to adapt to certain situations (lacks common sense)
- need to do things every five minutes to remember it
structured friendship –> to be without parents
signs of depression
- worries about everything (needs somebody there to help her)
2000 childrren born with FAS and many more with FASE symptoms
janet –> drank during pregnancy
drank gin during pregnancy
- son was lazy not applying himself
- into drugs, hanging out with wrogn crowd
- stealing
- quit school by gr10
- featiures soften in maturity
- dignosed with FAS at 21
- cant hold job
- received disability payment
- IQ is over 70 so doesnt qualify for anything
- trying to keep him out of alive and out of prison
mark = FAS
bigger school move–> wasnt fitting in
- skipped school
- break law –> car theft,
- locked up again and again
- trying to figure out what was going on
relief in that regard –> were not going to click –> may never end
- doesnt learn from consequences
- years in penitentiary
- so parents had him on house arrest
- 2 years sentence , 3 years in probation
- has a daughter
- couldnt look after her
wish dad could go back and say sorry
- part of a problem not solution
- punish them for being dissabled
caring for someone w/ FAS is time consuming
25-50% of people in jail could have been exposed to alcohol in womb
jails coming up iwth treatment and programming for inmates with different learning disabilities
- optimize ability to learn nd have control
built a program but cant refer people to the program because not enough people are diagnosed
burns lake (healthier babies organization)
highest rate of alcohol consumption
- model for people with FAS
- FAS prevention program –> convince pregnant people not to drink
- support workers come once a week –> budgeting, support,
- brought a good chance in burns lake
- 90% of moms have stopped using drugs and alcohol
focus: FA related adults have course work to get jobs
come 5 days/week
taield made for way FAS learns
- bare walls and no outside distractions
67% have been into the police system
- how FAS has affected their lives
- made a garden
