Check out this video on the importance of FASD awareness: 
Alcohol use during pregnancy is a leading preventable cause of birth defects and developmental disabilities.  Despite increased awareness/education, many individuals of childbearing age, including pregnant persons, and persons at risk of pregnancy drink and binge drink alcohol (>3 drinks per occasion).
 
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) is the umbrella term used to describe the range of effects that can occur due to prenatal alcohol exposure including physical, cognitive, behavioral and/or social deficits.  Not intended as a clinical diagnosis, the term represents medical conditions associated with prenatal alcohol exposure including fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), partial FAS, alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND), alcohol-related birth defects, and neurodevelopmental disorder associated with prenatal alcohol exposure (ND-PAE).
 
Many medical, allied health care providers, educators, and others work with individuals affected by prenatal alcohol exposure—diagnosed or undiagnosed—but may lack training to identify, refer, and/or provide effective services.  Few agencies offer FASD training to address these important issues. 
 
This FASD self-paced learning series helps decrease the knowledge gap by providing on-demand educational opportunities to learn more about the prevention, identification, and treatment of FASD. 
Fully Online
On Canvas
This course will be hidden for our team to do an annual content review from September 30. 
The following activities are included in the FASD Training Series
  1. Complete Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Current Concepts and Approaches (UW-Madison Course) and complete discussion questions.
  2. Complete Interprofessional Collaborative Practice as a Model for Preventing Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention course) and complete discussion questions.
  3. Watch Screening for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and complete discussion questions.
  4. Watch a podcast on the assessment and diagnosis of FASDs and answer discussion questions.
  5. Watch One Family’s Story and answer discussion questions.
  6. Watch Reading Scientific Papers for Understanding; Tips for Non-Scientists and answer discussion questions.
  7. Read article and answer discussion questions: Mattson, S. N., Bernes, G. A. & Doyle, L. R. (2019). Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: A review of the neurobehavioral deficits associated with prenatal alcohol exposure. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43(6), 1046-1062. 
  8. Read article and answer discussion questions: Wozniak, J. R., Riley, E. P., & Charness, M. E. (2019). Clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. The Lancet Neurology, 18, 760-770. 
  9. Read article and answer discussion questions: Adebiyi, B. O., Mukumbang, F. C. and Erasmus, C. (2019). The distribution of available prevention and management interventions for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (2007-2017): Implications for collaborative actions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16, 2244.
  10. Complete FASD Series evaluation.
Length of Training
Expect to spend about 8 hours total completing this training.
This does not all have to be completed at once. You will have until September 30, 2024 to get everything done.
Continuing Education
​8 Continuing Education Hours will be awarded for completing the training. This is equal to the 8 hours of content.
Accessing Content
  • Once you have registered through the above link, you will receive an invitation to join Canvas as soon as possible.
  • Then, you will use the invitation email to log in to Canvas with an existing account or create a new one. You may want to keep this invitation link for easy access to the course. Of course, you can also log in to the UW-Milwaukee Canvas here.
  • In Canvas, you will complete the modules in the order they are listed in.

Canvas Help

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee provides resources in the case that you should need extra help with Canvas. Included in the resource tabs are "Training" (help on how to use the most common features on the platform), "Canvas Made Easy" (in-depth documentation on how to complete important tasks), and an "FAQ" for students.

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​If after accessing these resources you still require further help, contact [email protected].

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