Eileen Devine
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first heard Nov 2019
last heard Nov 2019
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And so one of the things I found really early on in my practice working with parents is that I really needed to be clear on the fact that I have an area of expertise in FASD, and also I'll work with any parents who have kids with neurobehavioral conditions.
And the reason for that, one of the reasons is that the brain is the brain.
The symptoms look very similar.
And also I understand the rate of misdiagnosis, the questions that don't get asked.
The the adoptive um parents who have a child who maybe has an unclear history.
There's not any prenatal records or information that they can kind of go and say, okay, yes, there was documented use.
Um and so I want them to also understand that you don't have to have
that diagnosis for um you to do things differently and for your child to be able to settle in their environment and thrive.
Um but the rates amongst um adoptive kids who are adopted or who have been in the foster care system is exponentially high.
We know that to be true um again based on research that's been done.
Yeah, you know, I don't have I don't have that statistic in front of me, but I could I could track that down and maybe we could add it in the show notes if that's helpful.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, and if you I think that when we talk about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder or prenatal substance use of any kind, but specially alcohol, which is a very
Common substance used in our society.
It's of course legal.
Lots of us enjoy having alcohol from time to time in different quantities.
And yet, when we think about a child who has FASD, we all have this immediate picture of what their parent must be pop up into our mind.
I mean, I think that's unavoidable that we that we all kind of go there.
And for many of us,
us, it's actually not an accurate, you know, visual of what group of parents are
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