FACE 12 - Behavioural interventions for FASD: The promise - the challenges
This event was held on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 t the Stanhope Beach Resort & Conference Centre, Prince Edward Island, Canada as part of the 12th Annual FACE Research Roundtable. Click here for a list of other session from this conference.
The 12th FACE Research Roundtable was organized by the Motherisk Program and sponsored by the Brewers Association of Canada.
Presenter:
- Joanne Rovet, PhD, Senior Scientist, Neurosciences & Mental Heath (NMH), The Hospital for Sick Children; Professor of Paediatrics and Psychology, University of Toronto
It is well established that maternal drinking leads to a host of cognitive, behavioural, and social problems in a child prenatally exposed to alcohol. Furthermore, these problems are associated with later mental health issues and trouble with the law as adults. A seminal study by Streissguth and associates, however, showed these later disturbances were partially ameliorated by providing affected children with intervention at an early age. Unfortunately, few effective empirically validated therapies currently exist for this population, in part because these have failed to deal with the key core deficits most needing intervention. This presentation will review the interventions so far studied in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders as well as in animal models of prenatal alcohol effects. It will then show why an intervention aimed at improving children’s self-regulation skills known as Alert may be ideal for children with FASD and describe the approach taken in evaluating the effects of this therapy at both brain and behavioural levels.
.
.
Sponsors
The 12th FACE Research Roundtable was organized by the Motherisk Program and sponsored by the Brewers Association of Canada.
.
