“We wish to thank the AER Foundation’s Small Grants Program for its support and commitment to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Australia”
All current Australian studies on the costs of alcohol related burden of disease and injury are seriously flawed because they do not include the economic costs related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). The number of children/adults in Australia with this condition are currently hidden – they are either not diagnosed or they are mis-diagnosed with ADD/ADHD or [...]
I am in the process of having the Foundation incorporated and will post when it is a fully fledged incorporated association. Thanks all who have supported this dream. Once it is incorporated, then i will get deductible gift recipient status and then………………… all i need is funds. I have sent a positive message out to the [...]
I am in the process of writing another book or booket actually on helping someone with FASD obtain and maintain open employment, which federal government programs are the best and anything else I can think of that might help. If I cant get this one published I will put it on my website for free [...]
http://mywebsite.bigpond.com/tsmiers1/april%2007.pdf
Excellent article on FASD with quotes from Dr John Whitehall from The Townsville Hospital who has written an article which was published in the Medical Journal calling for the current guidelines on alcohol and pregnancy to be changed immediately from a possible seven drinks a week (IF a pregnant woman chooses to drink), to abstinence. I [...]
What a great pair of interviewers David and Kim are. They obviously did their homework and certainly made me feel comfortable in the studio. I thank them for their commitment to this cause and their understanding of the seriousness of this issue.
Even the experts are unsure how much is safe
I just read a blog which suggested that because fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is caused by consistently using alcohol in excess of the guidelines, and because it has been shown that small amounts of alcohol seem NOT to cause FAS, that we should not be telling women that they should abstain completely from alcohol during [...]
I know very little about the way the Education System works other than there are private and public schools and my boys had very difficult experiences in both. What I do know though is that children with FASD will continue to have difficult, soul destroying stays in our education system until we ackowledge that not [...]
Its about time that government leaders in health and Indigenous Affairs realised that many of the problems associated with life in Indigenous communities such as domestic violence, sexual abuse, drug and alcohol problems, incarceration, lack of self determination, unemployment, infant mortality, sexual deviancy, low birth weight babies, lack of motivation and the seeming inability to [...]