Official Syllabus

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Official Photos

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Plenary Presentations (Videos on YouTube)

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• FASD at Mid-Life: What Have We Learned? (Susan Stoner)
• Co-plenary: The Collaborative Initiative on FASD (CIFASD) Symposium: Part I
• Co-plenary: The Collaborative Initiative on FASD (CIFASD) Symposium: Part II
• FASD: What’s in a Name? (Elizabeth Elliott, Laura Bousquet, Jenelle McMillan, Lori Vitale Cox, Carolyn Hartness)
• Paternal drinking and the epigenetic influences on mitochondrial function, child health, and FASD (Mike Golding)
• Modifiable lifestyle factors to support neurodevelopment in individuals with FASD (Jeffrey Wozniak & Blake Gimbel)
  
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• Adulting Hard Mode: When Your Operating System Is FASD (Carl Young)
• What a Diagnosis Could Mean (Patima Sing-Eisen)
• What If? Exploring Possibilities for Thriving with FASD (Laura Bousquet)

Presentations (Slides)

Provided the speaker(s) has granted permission, please see their slides here in chronological order for the following:

1) Plenary Sessions

• FASD at Mid-Life: What Have We Learned? (Susan Stoner)
• FASD: What’s in a Name? (Ben Gibbard & Gurpreet Salh)
• FASD: What’s in a Name? (Laura Bousquet)
• FASD: What’s in a Name? (Jenelle McMillian)
• FASD: What’s in a Name? (Lori Vitale Cox)
• Paternal drinking and the epigenetic influences on mitochondrial function, child health, and FASD (Mike Golding)
• Modifiable lifestyle factors to support neurodevelopment in individuals with FASD (Jeffrey Wozniak & Blake Gimbel)

2) Co-plenary: The Collaborative Initiative on FASD (CIFASD) Symposium

• Introduction to the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD) (Edward Riley)
• Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on self-report of medical illnesses later in life (Claire D. Coles)
• Using novel brain imaging tools to better understand development in youth with FASD (Blake Gimbel)
• Using 3D imaging to identify FASD-associated facial dysmorphism across the lifespan (Michael Suttie)
• Comparison of methods for physical evaluation of dysmorphology in FASD (Miguel del Campo)
• Combined transcranial direct current stimulation and cognitive training as an intervention for children and adolescents with FASD (Jeffrey Wozniak)
• Extending access to care for people with FASD across the lifespan using smartphone and web applications (Christie L. M. Petrenko, Cristiano Tapparello)

3) Co-plenary: Global Action on FASD Prevention Research, Policy, and Practice

• Influences on alcohol use in pregnancy (Nancy Poole)
• Empowering Health: Insights and evaluation of the Australian public health campaign ‘Every Moment Matters’ on alcohol, pregnancy, and breastfeeding (Elizabeth Elliott, Sophie Harrington, Jacqueline Bowden)
• Unveiling the FASD National Partner Network: Key Partners, Initiatives, and Practical Tools (Sarah Brown, Katherine Chyka, Alexandra Edwards, Sandra Gonzalez, Anna Mangum, Rosa Arvizu)

2) Breakout Sessions

• A1i) Does Home Educational Enrichment Improve Early Mathematics in Children with FASD?
• A1ii) Tailoring Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) for Children with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
• A1iii) Exploring Caregiver Attitudes toward Physical Discipline and Use of Behavior Management Strategies after Participation in a Novel FAS Intervention
• A1iv) Understanding Traumatic Stress and Stressful Life Events in Children with Suspected Exposure to Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
• A2ii) Characterising FASD profiles over 5 years – the VicFAS database
• A2iii) Screening for Prenatal Substance Exposure in Inpatient Pediatric Populations
• A3i) Exploring Nutritional Status and Metabolic Imbalances in Children with FASD: A Cross-Sectional Study
• A3ii) Neuroplacentology and FASD: When dysregulation of the “placenta-fetal brain” communication signals neurovascular defects
• A3iv) Non-coding RNAs as potential mediators of an opioid-induced worsened neuroimmune and neuropathic pain outcome in prenatal alcohol-exposed mice offspring
• A4ii) Stigma and media portrayals of FASD
• A4iii) FASD and alcohol use in pregnancy: the road to policy change
• A4iv) Do alcohol tax changes reduce pre-pregnancy and pregnancy alcohol consumption? Evidence from the PRAMS
• A6: FASD in South Africa, a spectrum of research and intervention
• A7: Development of Families Moving Forward Connect Pro for Mental Health Providers: Striving for a Continuum of Care
• B1i) The Effects of Developmental Ethanol Exposure & Choline Treatment on Choline Metabolism
• B1iii) Evaluating genes and associated protein expression of choline-related molecules in BXD mice to identify candidates that modulate differential efficacy of choline in ameliorating ethanol-induced cell death in the neural tube
• B2i) FASD: diverse perspectives from a diagnostic program
• B2ii) Developmental, Sensory and Behavioral Outcomes Among Infants and Toddlers with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
• B3i) Mental Health Disorders in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A Scoping Review
• B3ii) Insights from Mental Health Professionals: Strategies for Addressing Suicidality in Clients with FASD
• B3iii) Collaborative approaches to enhancing mental health services for youth with FASD: Insights from Alberta’s co-creation group
• B5: Navigating international systems on FASD – experiences, innovative solutions, and their results
• C1i) Prenatal alcohol and cannabinoid co-exposure produces sex-specific changes in opioidergic gene expression in the medial prefrontal cortex that are associated with drug-seeking and anxiety-like behaviors
• C1ii) Alterations of brain and behaviour over time in children with low levels of prenatal alcohol exposure
• C2i) From Bottle to Meal: Exploring the Journey of Eating and Swallowing in People with FASD
• C3i) Two-Eyed-Seeing in the Healing of FASD in NB–A synergistic collaboration between Mi’gmag knowledge traditions and provincial health expertise
• C3ii) Decolonizing the FASD Assessment Process – Making Space for a Culturally Safe Model for FASD Assessment and Wrap-Around Services for First Nations Communities
• C3iii) Strong Born – A National Indigenous Campaign on FASD Prevention in Australia
• C4: FASD is not a label, it is a pathway to understanding – Challenging stigma, a lived experience perspective
• C7: What proportion of brain structural and functional abnormalities observed among children with FASD is explained by their prenatal alcohol exposure and their other prenatal and postnatal risks?
• D1i) From Standardized to Specialized: Evaluating Children and Adolescents with FASD
• D2i) Biological sex and genetics as mediators of craniofacial development in a mouse model of FASD
• D2ii) PAE Toolkit
• D3iii) Adaptive Functioning Criteria in ND-PAE Diagnosis are Specific to Prenatal Alcohol Exposure in Children with ADHD
• D5: Pathways to FASD Diagnosis and Care: Opportunities and Challenges Experienced by Families Seeking FASD Evaluations for Their Children
• D6: Risks in the child welfare system: Child and youth deaths where FASD is an identified concern as reported by child and youth advocates in Canada and public data in Australia
• D7i) Respect, Honor, Amplify: Best Practices and Lessons Learned from Working with People with Living Experiences of FASD & Supporting participation, voice, advocacy and community through FASD research: accessible research methods with adolescents and birth parents
• D7ii) Supporting participation, voice, advocacy and community
• E1i) FASD identification in Australia: Australian psychologists’ knowledge, confidence, and practices with perspectives from psychologists and individuals with lived and living experience
• E1ii) Increasing Awareness about FASD in Kenya
• E1iii) A National FASD Learning Collaborative for Pediatric Care Teams: A Mixed Methods Evaluation
• E1iv) FASD: A Pilot Study Exploring Parental Experiences and a FASD Education Program
• E2i) Binge Ethanol Exposure in Mouse Equivalent to Third Trimester Human Pregnancy: Impact on Neuronal Function in the Subiculum
• E3i) Not Your Typical Parenting Approach: A Practical Approach to Complex Neurodevelopmental Disorders
• E3ii) “The gritters go out, they grit the road, that’s me, every single hour”: The unseen labour and caregivers’ reflections of daily strategies that help children and youth with FASD succeed
• E3iii) ‘No-one believed us: no-one came to help’: caregivers’ experiences of violence and abuse involving children and youth living with FASD
• E3iv) The Salford parents and carers education course for improvements in FASD outcomes in children (SPECIFiC): Results of a feasibility trial in the UK
• E4ii) Screening for Alcohol Use in Pregnancy: Insights on Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data Quality & Completeness
• E9: Addressing FASD: Working With and Learning From Indigenous Communities