AVITH in Context: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

Other

Audience

Residential Care, Frontline Staff, All Service Providers

Facilitator Bio

Professor Anita Gibb, of the University of Otago, NZ, has been researching this topic for some time. As the adoptive mother of two young men, one with a confirmed diagnosis of FASD, and both living with additional neurodivergent dis/abilities, she also has lived experience. Professor Gibbs will share some of her recent academic research on this topic and some insights into living with violent outbursts and meltdowns. Professor Gibbs brings a strengths-based, social model approach to this discussion about ‘disability’; it is when people, systems and structures fail or refuse to accommodate difference that a person’s experience becomes disabling. She also advocates for a disability rights framework, which challenges every system to ensure that those who are particularly vulnerable are given the means to participate fairly and equitably alongside their peers without disability.

Duration

1 Hrs