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Reach to Teach: Educating Elementary and Middle School Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Reach to Teach
is an invaluable
resource for parents and teachers to use in educating elementary and middle school children who have an FASD. The guide
provides a basic introduction to FASD, along with tools to enhance communication with the child and between parents and
teachers.
Parents with a child identified as having an FASD can reach out to teachers, school principals, special education
professionals, religious school personnel, and camp counselors by passing along copies of the guide. Teachers and other
staff, in turn, can use the guide to quickly learn specific classroom strategies to assist learning for a child with an
FASD, including structuring a caring and consistent environment, shifting attitudes and improving understanding, learning
to translate misbehavior, and restructuring the physical space in the classroom. The guide also contains forms that
parents and teachers can use to better communicate about schedules, strategies, and problem-solving. There is also a list
of available FASD resources on the Web, on video, and in print.
Since its publication in 2007, Reach to Teach has been one of the most popular products available through the SAMHSA FASD
Center for Excellence. Click here
to download it, or click
here
to order your free copy online from SAMHSA today!