'FASD Informed' Residential Team (Stage 4 Programme)

somersetmiracles
3 days ago
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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 Residential Schools / Homes:

Registered Manager, Care Staff, Youth Mentors, Support Staff, Key Workers, 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 Home / School hours or on inset, where you can dip in and out at your own pace:

FASD Informed™ Residential Team 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.
- Identify how alcohol is Neuro-Developmental Trauma
- The impact of alcohol on the brain and its vulnerabilities
- Show how alcohol has a direct impact to processing speed, teaching & learning through processing and functioning
- Examine how the alcohol informs the spectrum of need and some of its 428 co-occurring conditions including Autism, ADHD, Learning Disabilities, Tourette’s etc
- Review developmental milestones in the womb; compare the impact on the brain and explain the lifelong impact
- Recognise the brain functions and how FASD impacts development
- Illustrate the facial features of FASD and when these are formed
- Examine the developmental divergence of peers in learning

FASD Informed™ Residential Team 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™ Residential Team 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™ Residential Team 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 person need?’

rather than

‘What is wrong with this person?’

We dig deep to tune into the child/ren or young person that you support where we tailor our programme around the child or young persons 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.

'Personalised training at its very best.... the course was completely tailored around the young person that we support where there was a full review of all assessments and an informal conversation with parents.

Fabulous! We learnt so much and really feel that we know so much more about the young person we support where we see things completely through the lense of FASD. We will definitely 'tune in' to prenatal alcohol exposure with every child we support in the future.

Sincerely I say this, where it has been a gamechanger for my team. Thank you.'

Registered Manager, Residential Home, Wiltshire

'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 can stay with you are the course where 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.

Image with kindest permission of our FASD Friend @Charlie Mackesy