Current and Past Newsletters

Volume 19

Number 2, Jun 2009

• The Growing Problem of Cognitive Disorders in Corrections
• Poem: FASD Parents Daily Dilemmas
• FASD Funding Cuts Will be Felt by All of Us
• Submit an Article to Iceberg

Number 1, Mar 2009

• The MILE Program: Helping with Math Achievement and Behavior
• A Medical Student Addresses FASD Among Rural Women
• Canadians in Planning for Adult FASD Assessment Networks
• Submit an Article to Iceberg

Volume 18

Number 4, Dec 2008

• Awareness Travels the Globe on FASDay
  • New Zealand Kicks Off FASD Awareness Day
• Pregnant Men Pose in London’s Victoria Station
• How Ireland marked International Fetal Alcohol Awareness Day 2008
• National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome—Washington DC
• Arizona Rings in FASDay
• FASDay Events Sweep Canada
• Recipe Highlights from the Mocktail Events
• Knot to be Silent

Number 3, Sept 2008

• Book review: The Moon Children
• Preventing an Alcohol Exposed Pregnancy
  through Preconception Care
• You are invited to attend the Fetal Alcohol
  Awareness Candlelight Vigil

Number 2, June 2008

• Through the Lens of a Child Psychiatrist: The Need to Distinguish FASD from other Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the DSM-V
• Poem: Who I am
• FASD Experts: Multidisciplinary Forensic Assessment for a Multidimensional Condition
• 6th Annual FASD Family Summer Camp
• Submit an Article to Iceberg

Number 1, April 2008

• FASD Leadership Conference on the Next Challenge: Intervention and Treatment for Alcohol-Affected Individuals
• From Tragedy to Triumph
• Thinking of Kirt
• FASD Conference, in Seattle
• Submit an article to Iceberg

Volume 17

Number 4, January 2008

• An Approach to Psychotherapy For Individuals with FASD
• Update from Ireland
• Sinja Update
• Ireland to Introduce Warning Lables on Containers Containing Alcohol

Number 3, September 2007

• FASD No Obstacle for German Horse Rider
• DVD review - RECOVERING HOPE: Mothers Speak Out about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
• Alcohol and drug Hotline Extends Beyond the Phone Line
• A New Service Opens in Seattle to Assess for FASD in Adults and Late Adolescents

Number 2, June 2007

• Global Conference Strikes Personal Note
• From Research to Practice: FASD and the King County Courts
• Moving Abroad with FASD: An Interview with Sidney Guimont
• The Invisible Disability

Number 1, March 2007

• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders - A Judge’s Perspective
• Beyond a Diagnosis
• Rules for Living with Adults with FASD

Volume 16

Number 4, December 2006

• The Current State of FASD Intervention: An Overview to Spark Debate and New Ideas
• SANDY MCAULIFF – A Presence Larger than Life
• Book Review—Hard To Place: A Crime of Alcohol

Number 3, September 2006

• Roberta Wright Remembered
• A New Concept of Mental Health
  Part A: A Focus on Strength
• New Neuropsychological Assessment Service Offered to Adults with Suspected FASD
• A New Concept of Mental Health
  Part B: Grants Seek Transformation of Mental Health Care

Number 2, June 2006

• Social Skill Development in Children with FASD: A Pilot Program to Enhance Friendship Building
• CJ’s Words
• David’s Words
• Ireland’s Trouble With Alcohol
• I Have FAS
• Our Lives with FASD
• Book Review: “Alcohol and Pregnancy – a Mother’s Responsible Disturbance”

Number 1, January 2006

• A Great Voice of FASD Retires
• Karli’s artwork (completed in 2005)
• Save This Date: The 2006 Northwest Regional FASD Conference
• The Families Moving Forward Project: Promising Research Helps Families Raising Children with FASD

Volume 15

Number 4, November 2005

• Lessons of camp resonate beyond summer
• FASLink: Celebrating 10 Years Online
• Bringing a research network to life

Number 3, August 2005

• Getting FASD in the DSM: The Work of a Few Good Doctors
• Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Research in the early 1900s
• Response to "Getting FASD in the DSM: The Work of a Few Good Doctors"
• What You Can Do to Support Students with FASD

Number 2, April 2005

• Here we come again—The third annual FASD Family Summer Camp
• NOFAS Washington: A work in progress
• FASt Friends meeting schedule
• Reunion Island’s Pioneer Health Network for the prevention of FASD

Number 1, January 2005

• Reaching Out and “Recovering Hope”
• New book explores our “Damaged Angels”
• Chipping away at preconceptions in a small town
• Recovering Hope: Mothers speak out about FASD
• My story from FAS to REUNISAF

Volume 14

Number 4, November 2004

• A tapestry of memories and connections
• An adult reflects on his life with FASD
• FASD Center for Excellence trains thousands
• Group therapy for youth with FASD
• Mother to 13 children

Number 3, August 2004

• Building FASD State Systems: second annual meeting
• The ongoing evolution of a social skills group
• Discussion of adolescent therapy groups
• FASD resources for the classroom
• Brewers in Japan will start using warning labels

Number 2, April 2004

• Families Moving Forward: Promoting confident, creative parenting of challenging children
• Prison: A warehouse for individuals with FASD
• Sneaking in the back door—Basic strategies for developing social skills in teens
• Poem: Can't Stop Me
• In time we are unveiling more of the iceberg
• Press release
• Parent support group advances FASD advocacy in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Number 1, January 2004

• Parents become FASt Friends
• FASt Friends network members gain strength from collaborating
• FASD management: A work in progress
• Meet the FASIS board of directors

Volume 13

Number 3, October 2003

• "Rabbits, wolves, eagles, deer and bears, oh my!" A report from Family Camp
• Letter: Still euphoric after Family Camp
• NOFAS awards recognize outstanding leadership
• Poem: Short stuff
• FAS Day 2003
• National FASD biological parents gathering
• Rap song: Learning to spread your wings

Number 2, June 2003

• FAS/FAE community loses pioneer advocate
• From the editor: A change for Iceberg
• Welcome: New editorial board members
• The FASD Center for Excellence: FASD momentum at the national level
• The value of psychotherapy for adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Number 1, March 2003

• Family stress in parenting a child or adolescent with FASD
• Poem: Sit and Watch
• Successes: Grant develops free computer games and songs to help children with FAS

Volume 12

Number 4, December 2002—PDF includes

• System of care reform: Implications for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
• Mo'Angels is makin' a difference
• Song: FAS Affects

Number 3, September 2002—PDF includes

• Parenting tips after nineteen years on the job (part II)
• Matrices track problems and interventions
• Examining Canada's community support to young adults with FASD

Number 2, June 2002

• Parenting tips after nineteen years on the job (part I)
• Poem: Being a kid is Tough
• Longtime advocate receives Nichols Leadership Award
• Successes: Yukon's programs for adults with FAS—a model for small communities
• Here Are the Stars

Number 1, March 2002—PDF includes

• Updates from FAS communities worldwide
• A letter edged in black
• Successes: Finding support for FAS treatment

Volume 11

Number 4, December 2001

• Using brain imaging to track FAS
• 24/7 vs. letting go
• Using active imaging to unlock the secrets of FASD
• New book offers insights

Number 3, September 2001

• Researching the effects of alcohol in utero
• Recent research highlights
• Screams: A parent's sweet sound of success
• Book & video: Journey Through the Healing Circle
• Dr. Sterling Clarren honored for FAS research
• Grant aims to "Prevent Double Jeopardy"

Number 2, June 2001

• Effective advocacy is a complex task
• Why I bother (to treat adolescents with FAS and sexual offending behaviors)
• Long journey to opening a clinic
• Adolescents' substance use affected by prenatal alcohol/drug exposure
• More drug courts should address FAS

Number 1, March 2001

• Substance abuse prevention for high-risk children: perspectives from adoptive parents
• Happy ten year anniversary, iceberg
• My daughter is doing well now, but she still has FAS/E
• How I spent my summer vacation