'FASD Informed' Specialist School (Stage 4 Programme)

For those supporting children and young people with complex presentations of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure, Fluctuating Capacity, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and overlapping Complex Needs.

This course is designed for professionals working in specialist indoor and/or outdoor settings:

Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SENCO's, Therapists, Forest School Leaders, Specialist Support staff, Mentors, Care Assistants, Medical Professionals, Educational Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Teachers of the Deaf or Vision Specialists, Dedicated Specialist Teachers, Administration & Reception, Dinner Staff, Care Staff, Volunteers, Technical Support, and Direct Student Support.

Our 'FASD Informed' School Stage 4 programme provides online live bitesize sessions tailored to your timetable, where we can adjust the time to suit your team in or out of School hours or on inset, where you can dip in and out at your own pace:

• FASD Informed™ School Stage 1: What is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder?….. with no assumptions, all professionals starting on the same page at a gentle pace; we consider the damage of the brain and nervous system; how this impacts learning and development.

• FASD Informed™ School Stage 2: Interpreting theory into practice, processing speed, transitions, sexualised symptoms, hyper-fixation, perseverance, confabulation, fluctuating capacity, differentiating the curriculum, providing strategies to consider to support the spectrum; digging deeper into the practical considerations with case study reflection.

• FASD Informed™ School Stage 3: Supporting forward planning and anticipated divergence of needs, digging deep into 'switching' techniques, looking outside the box & meeting emerging needs, planning well ahead for transitions (Developmental stage appropriate e.g: Tuning into strengths, Supported Internship programmes, job coaching, supported living).

• FASD Informed™ School Stage 4: FASD NICE Quality Standards, OFSTED good practice informing 'FASD Responsive' Practice; personalised care, fluctuating capacity, risk assessment, safeguarding, reflection and case management; forward planning and where appropriate involving a wider multi-disciplinary team.

'FASD-informed practice' acknowledges the need to see beyond an individual’s presenting behaviours, to consider symptoms and to ask.....

‘What does this child need?’

 rather than

‘What is wrong with this child?’

We dig deep to tune into the child/ren that you support where we tailor our programme around the child or young adults individual needs. We offer practical application of educational & therapeutic strategies to support the indoor and outdoor classroom where we tune into the brain injury and central nervous system damage of children who have been exposed to alcohol in the womb.

FASD continues to be a frequently misunderstood condition, those who are not appropriately trained or knowledgeable can often make inaccurate 'assumptions' due to the fact that many individuals with FASD can superficially present as more able than they actually are, due to their spiky cognitive and neurodevelopmental profiles.

With up to 428 co-occurring neurodevelopmental conditions common to FASD, spanning across 18 of 22 chapters of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) -10. The most prevalent disease conditions include congenital malformations, deformities, and chromosomal abnormalities, mental and 'behavioural' disorders..... we consider the 'symptoms' and look for a positives ways to interpret and scaffold needs.

All participants will receive 'FASD Informed' certification, resources and membership of our network of 'FASD Responsive' Specialist Schools.

We tailor our online bespoke 'FASD-Informed' sessions around the needs of the families you support; every session is unique because we consider carefully the children that you support.

'It was a complete lightbulb moment for me. I attend thinking it ticks a box... this training absolutely is not that as it literally changes lives! I look at every child I support through a new lense.'

I loved everything about the sessions, it was great to bring the governance team of our School together, where we were encouraged to share skills and experience. 

We really dug deep to considering the children in our School who were likely to have been exposed to alcohol.... so many lightbulb moments where we all now look through the lense providing a personalised approach .... very powerful.

The experience of the speakers were so rich and valuable to my role where they provided such huge insight into the difference my job can make. So inspiring and energising, thank you.'

Headteacher / DSL Cornwall

'FASD Informed' (TM) Education delivered by a strong experienced qualified team, tailoring a bespoke service to support your team in becoming FASD Responsive(TM)

To book a placeholder diary date please email us: info@fasdinformed.co.uk

We also offer an online 1:1 consultation service and attendance of meetings for stuck or complex cases requiring out of the box thinking to consider the spectrum of needs and to look towards finding a way forwards.

To support a School to become 'FASD Responsive' we recommend considering a whole School approach where we have developed a successful programme for Governing bodies, Headteachers, DSL's, Designated Teachers, SENCO's; this considers policy change needed to support birth, children looked after and in care who have been exposed to prenatal alcohol.

For more details click the link here: 'FASD Informed' Professional

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