Category: FASD News

 

RESEARCH INTO THE EXPERIENCES OF MOTHERS WITH CHILDREN WITH FASD

Are you the mother of a child with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder?  Researchers at Murdoch University would like to talk to you about your early experiences and the role that health professionals and family (and friends) played in influencing your decisions about drinking alcohol during pregnancy.  The purpose of this study is to try and understand who it is that women go to for support and what advice is helpful.  Please click on this link for further information.

 

Ophthalmological findings in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders – A cohort study from childhood to adulthood.

Gyllencreutz E, et al. (January 2020) Ophthalmological findings in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders – A cohort study from childhood to adulthood. The most common refractive error was astigmatism. In children with FASD, ophthalmological findings like refractive errors, strabismus, and fundus abnormalities are frequent and continue into early adulthood. The characteristic facial features of FAS diminish […]