Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Full Day Course

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting young people who are in care or education and other settings. The course covers key topics such as awareness of the condition including symptoms, awareness of risk factors, understanding behaviours and challenges for young people with FASD, awareness of legislation , look at prevalence within the U.K. population, discuss pregnancy and legal landscape and provide learners with support techniques for working collaboratively with young people who have FASD. The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• Define Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and provide a background into its origin
• Discuss the symptoms of FASD
• Gain understanding of the child with FASD
• Highlight how it effects the social, emotional and cognitive functioning of a child
• Understand legislation and prevalence around FASD
• Give examples of how the brain is affected
• Investigate if women should be prosecuted
• Demonstrate how to support people with FASD