Essential FASD Supports: Understanding and Supporting People with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

By Nate Sheets

People with FASDs Can Be Successful-with Support

The question is, how do we support them? Despite being one of the most common developmental disabilities in the world, there is little understanding (and even fewer services) for people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) and their families. Family members spend years looking for help and resources, only to find that most professionals do not know enough about FASD or how to support those with it. Parents and supporters of children, teens, and adults with FASDs are often perplexed by their behaviors and daily struggles. Traditional responses and approaches often make things worse. We might know that they need different types of support, but struggle with knowing how to do so.

That's where Essential FASD Supports comes in This book offers a reinterpretation of "challenging behaviors" and other common struggles that people with FASDs experience while living in a world that does not understand them. It helps parents and professionals think about practical supports for everyday life and long-term progress. Additionally, readers will learn what we should avoid if we want to effectively support people with FASDs. Essential FASD Supports addresses:

- Daily learning and thinking

- Emotional dysregulation and "challenging behaviors"

- Opposition

- Safe and healthy interactions

This book provides a proactive framework to support people with FASDs so they can use their strengths to make progress and thrive. It will benefit parents, caregivers, foster providers, therapists, teachers, and anyone else who supports someone with an FASD.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1977245080
• ISBN13: 9781977245083
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A must for all who care for someone with FASD!

This comprehensive, yet succinct book picks up where Diane Malbin's "Trying Differently Rather than Harder" leaves off. Using actually case studies of families and individuals he has helped, Nate breaks down the "challenging behaviors", explores their roots through the lens of brain differences, and offers actual, workable and practical solutions and accomodations. This how-to guide has helped me to think, what does the brain need to do to accomplish this seemingly "simple" task, like communicating a need or complete a multi-step project. I see my adopted teens in a whole new light, and am all the more motivated to work to repair years of typical parenting and schooling that up to this point have not meet their needs. I am now focusing on strengths, listening, slowing down, and teaching them how to self-advocate. God Bless Nate Sheets.