Hi all,
I just wanted to share this, please look at he following overlapping behaviour chart.
We found this invaluable , to drill down to help confirm that our Adopted son has FASD with the Peaditrican, he has no facial features but displays everything else.
Please share come-over.to/FAS/PDF/Overla...
Kind regards D and P.
Hi D and P,
Thank you so much for this, we've spent many hours cross referencing behaviour patterns and this resource is so valuable.
I'll print it off and hand it to those highly opinionated ignorant people who tell me that my son must be autistic or give me the classic line of " yes but all kids go through that phase " !!!
It's not a phase, it's a life long challenge not only for family members but society as a whole.
Okay, rant over. Once again a big thank you for sharing this.
Wishing you well
Mother Nature
Hi mother nature,
You are very welcome , we used it a lot and we have given a copy to as many people as possible. That way more people have a better education or understanding of their behaviour.
But I do concur with you, a lot of people are very ignorant, and just need educating.
Kind regards d and p
Thankyou so much I will send a copy to z paediatrician. She is adamant as he doesn't display facial features its not FASD. It is well documented that his birth mother drank in excess whilst pregnant and he just ticked 90% of the boxes on there.
Wow, this document is a god send. Thank you for sharing. We are pulling our hair out at the mo with not knowing, even though we have paperwork stating birth moth drank massively.
If you have clear documented evidence mum drank, you should not be facing difficulty with diagnosis; have you called The FASD Trust and ask for advice, 01608 811599 and look on Facebook too facebook.com/groups/5155166...
You might find some extra support there.
Yep. Recommended!
That behaviour chart was the thing that caused the penny to drop for us.
I had read a little about FASD on my travels around the Internet, trying to get answers..and came across the book by Jodie Kulp about her journey with her daughter Liz. She has included this chart and heaps of other interesting/useful information and resources into the appendixes in her book 'Our FAScinating journey'.
I have copied this chart and printed out a few other bits from Teresa Kelleman to give to professionals along the way..
Best wishes on your journey,
I like the way she writes. It's personal yet professional and matter of fact.
I downloaded the 'what makes our teenagers tick' article (really helped explain our then 15 yr olds challenging and illogical behaviour - though I don't know if the social workers at that time even read it! )
Also I read her 'ABCs for success' to the same daughter - she liked it and I think it holds some sound and simple tactics for dealing with life with FASD. Of course it'll need to be read and explained and picked apart and repeated many times for it to have any impact 
She also wrote a piece about the 'External Brain' - don't remember if she was the one to coin the term, but it's a useful concept for thinking about how our kids are going to survive in adulthood. Again, useful for trying to explain to social services and the SEN team how vunerable our children are and how important it is to find suitable educational provison.
It's been a really rocky ride for us too. We've learnt a lot. Our eldest adopted daughter has only just got her diagnosis (ARND with autism, inattentive ADHD and SPD) - it's caused no end of problems not having one.
Most important? Seems to me the number one priority has to be to get the correct diagnosis and to get an EHC (Education, Health and Care plan) put together for the now and for the future..
One step at a time,
Boots
Boots
My goodness you sound so like us! You must have started years ago, but we are learning just now what you must have gone through.
Yes school didn't understand social services well we know them so well and they know us lol
Six years has been tough , I feel we just tipped the top of the iceberg
D
Hi
This is great, can you give me the origin please? I wish to send it to our Medical experts who are dancing around making an ARND diagnosis.
Hi Gill jim
If you look at the bottom you will see the author. If you just google her and type in overlapping behaviours as well, you will find it.
Regards d and p
