Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Parenting a child with an invisible disability

This was a great book! It really helped us understand that the things our (adopted) son is struggling with are all connected together. This year he started grade school and it’s been a really tough year for him, his teacher, and our whole family. We had been focusing too much on all of the points not going right instead of why the events are occurring or how we can change the environment in order to help him. It’s easy to feel a bit guilty reading this book. It’s also easy to feel some real relief! This isn’t an easy journey; we really appreciate the support that the book gave! It could also be great to have a more global network of help (including Germany and the US, for example). Also, I’ve read this on Kindle and I’m not sure if there is some supplementary guides and worksheets I’m not seeing- but I’d enjoy having any additional support!

A wonderful resource for anyone working, interacting or living with a child who has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. This book was really written with parents in mind. The content is clear, concise and written from a positive perspective. Parents need to be able to focus and build on a child's strengths, especially a child with FAS. This book is the perfect guide to help parents nurture and support their child through every stage of development, with lots of valuable information, positive guidance strategies, and encouragement. An easy read and a resource that you will turn to again and again.

I found this book highly informative, with practical examples and scenarios I related to. I would strongly recommend that teachers, especially early childhood teachers, be flexible in our expectations. I will be reading this book again, and sharing the insights with my colleagues. I love that kindle allows me to highlight the text, and add notes.

This was the best book that I have read for anyone who has a child with fasd. Facing the facts about your special needs child is difficult enough. Trying to educate the people who are there to help you will overwhelm and finally exhaust your family. The things we go through and how to handle them is clearly written in plain and easy to read language.Affirmation of the things that we have learned from experience, and not what the professional world advises are in fact the correct approach.Thank you for writing this book.

I am so glad I found this book! Having cared for my foster child for the past two years I had been praying for some kind of breakthrough and here it is. After all the discouraging moments and feeling that I was alone and failing miserably, I found so many "Ah Ha!" moments in this book. As a result, I feel a little more encouraged, refreshed and energized and able to face the future with my boy on a long term basis.

Great book for parents. It gives the best practical advice I have seen on this subject. It helped us grandparents learn what we have to do for our two affected grandchildren.

Very helpful! We are trying to figure out the diagnosis for our boy and this book has helped us tremendously.

This is my favorite book on FASD. I lend it to everyone who comes in contact with the child in my life who has to live with this disorder. Easy read, clear examples, a must read for teachers because whether you know it or not, at least one child in the classroom has FASD, probably more!

I am a legal guardian to a little boy with fasd and have struggled (mainly due to the lack of support legal guardians get as opposed to foster carers and adoptive parents get but that's another issue) this book had been a God send, I have been a classic in the examples of "doing it wrong" and wondering why I am so useless-thanks parenting courses! :-)It has been like someone switched a light bulb on for me. Bog standard parenting courses don't work on fasd children. Neither do reward charts. Fully and simply explained. I am still feeding a child at four who cant potty train... No longer feel like a failure as it explains why my wonderful boy is struggling and its not a lack of parenting on my behalf. It has taken such a stress from me and helped me change the way I deal with with what I considered failures. I have had two copies as lent out to friends and people to help them realise why my child is unique in his own special way... Please read if you are raising a child with fasd or suspected fasd it really will help. The book is a very simple and easy to follow handbook that's worth every penny and more.

Our little one has suspected Foetal Alcohol Syndrome and this book has helped immesurably in helping us understand what's going on for him and what strategies might work to help. Prior to exploring FAS as a diagnosis we thought we were going mad - where does his erratic behaviour come from? And why doesn't he seem to respond to any of the parenting techniques we try?This book is concise, empathetic, based on real life experience and full of techniques which are relatively easy to understand and employ. My partner is not quite the avid reader I am but I was able to skim through all the chapters in about an hour and highlight the key points which I felt were relevant to our situation, such is the 'readability' of the text.Julia Brown, if you're reading this thank you so so much for your book. It has helped to save our family (and our sanity!) and I just wish knowledge of FASD in our society was as widespread as it desperately needs to be.

This is a fantastic book ,It keeps it simple but very informative .If you are needing this book to try and find help re what you think may be a problem with a child you suspect then this book takes you by the hand and leads you through an absolute minefield of worrying questions.It is not a be all and end all book but it points you in the right direction and gives you guidelines about what to look for and how to re-train yourself to deal with the dis-order in a positive but not to the point it swamps you with Too much terminology and medical speak .This book was an eyeopener for myself and a real help ,...

This has made me really understand FASD in terms that are easy to understand , a must read for anyone who knows anyone with this disorder

If this is a topic you need to know about for work, then there is no other place to look. I am a support worker and a friend recommended this to me. It is quite simply brilliant, readable and super informative. The text size makes it easy bedtime reading after a long day at work, Thank you to the author for this wonderful book, much appreciatedOliver Nash