Sentences with phrase «foetal alcohol spectrum disorder»

The Fund will also be able to finance further specialist clinical assessments such as for Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

There is a body of literature looking at parental stress for parents of children with disabilities, but the researchers in this Canadian study were interested in looking specifically at a comparison of parental stress for parents of children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and those with children with autism spectrum disorder.

Dr Janet Hammill, Gamilaraay woman from the University of Queensland, provided compelling information connecting Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder with risks for criminal justice system contact.

In many communities, she said, there's a tendency, particularly among non-Indigenous services, to assume that a child presenting with developmental issues has whatever is prevalent in the community, whether it's foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) or attention deficit disorder.

«As an organisation that sees the extreme levels of damage that alcohol causes in our hospitals every day — not just in terms of accidents and injuries, but in terms of chronic disease and illness — we welcome the budget's extra funding to combat Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), with a particular focus on rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Ms Williams would also like to see social marketing campaigns targeting Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, immunisation, and health checks for children and adolescents.

The #JustJustice book also exposes the unacceptably high number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with health conditions, such as foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and hearing loss, who have become trapped in a cycle of incarceration, often for minor offences.

Overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within court systems and prison is concerning enough, but more so for people with hearing loss, cognitive impairments, foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and other disabilities.

Published in the journal BMJ Open, the WA research also found that one in three of young people in detention had foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)-- the highest known rate of FASD among any population involved in the justice system worldwide.

Rosie, an Aboriginal woman with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, was declared by a Magistrate to be «unfit to be tried» under the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996 (Western Australia).

- Babies born with Foetal alcohol spectrum disorders Rates of harm experienced by another person's drinking in the UK are high.