FASD Training Event: September 15, 2014 with Allan Mountford Registration
Cause It’s Not My Fault: Applying a Neurobehavioural approach to the
behavioural and learning challenges of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
The presentation will be broken into two sessions. The first session will look at the primary, secondary and tertiary characteristics of FASD, the problems of diagnosis, and will explore how the behavioural
symptoms of this hidden disability affect the quality of education of children with FASD. It will explore
the physical, emotional & social symptoms in the school context.
The second session will provide strategies within a Neurobehavioural framework, where participants will experience how perceiving students with FASD in a different light will make their day a lot easier. This fast-moving, multi-media presentation will change the way educators approach that special group of children who have been such a puzzle for so many years.
Allan Mountford, B.A., B.P.E., B.Ed., M.Ed., O.C.T. (Madwewe Giizhig)
Allan Mountford works with the Durham District School
Board in a Section 23 program for adolescents, and is a Director of Chimo Youth
and Family Services. He is a professor at the Durham College School of Justice.
Allan is a member of FASD Ontario Network of Excellence Education Working
Group, and has been a member of the Durham Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Task Force, the Hospital for Sick Children FASD Steering Committee, FASWorld Canada, and several Federal and Provincial FASD committees with the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of Health Canada and Human Resources Development Canada. Allan works with First Nations communities across the country to discover FASD solutions.
He has worked with universities, school boards, First Nations communities, and social & judicial agencies. He is the author of two handbooks for educators of children with FASD, a CD-ROM and website for judges, crown attorneys and defence counsels. He has won awards from the Council for Exceptional Children and Ontario Association for Students at Risk for his work in the area of prenatal alcohol exposure. Allan follows the teachings of his Anishnaubek (Ojibwe) heritage.
Registration will close on September 10th