Who Can Help?
Treatment Team:
Who you can contact
Treatment:
Children with fetal alcohol syndrome are treated for their physical birth defects first when needed. Intervention is provided for cognitive and behavior abnormalities as well. Often medication is prescribed for children who show symptoms of impulsivity, hyperactivity, oppositional behavior, and sleep disorders.
Intervention
An intervention strategy for children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is to conduct an assessment of the child’s strengths and deficits in all the critical developmental areas: sensory, motor, language, cognitive, emotional, and social. The child’s treatment plan should build on strengths, improve deficits, and enhance functioning.
Clinical interventions for a child born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome are focused on the domains of physical, affective, cognitive, and behavior.
Treatment Team:
Who you can contact
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Occupational Therapists
- Educators
- Social Workers
Treatment:
Children with fetal alcohol syndrome are treated for their physical birth defects first when needed. Intervention is provided for cognitive and behavior abnormalities as well. Often medication is prescribed for children who show symptoms of impulsivity, hyperactivity, oppositional behavior, and sleep disorders.
Intervention
An intervention strategy for children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is to conduct an assessment of the child’s strengths and deficits in all the critical developmental areas: sensory, motor, language, cognitive, emotional, and social. The child’s treatment plan should build on strengths, improve deficits, and enhance functioning.
Clinical interventions for a child born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome are focused on the domains of physical, affective, cognitive, and behavior.
- Physical clinical intervention focuses on brain gym, yoga, relaxation techniques, deep breathing, sensory activities, and obstacle courses.
- Affective clinical intervention focuses on DIR/ floor time based therapy, role playing, social stories, feeling collages, therapeutic games, and emotional thermometer.
- Cognitive clinical intervention focuses on self-talk, problem-solving, visual-spatial games, language, story building, and treasure hunts.
- Behavior clinical intervention focuses on Positive Behavior Support Model (PBS), Alert Program for Self-Regulation, role play, positive peer support/mentoring, and videotaping/review.