FASD Elephant™ Podcast & Blog
Join Michael Harris, a Licensed Psychologist and FASD Speaker, as he discusses Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, a complicated, special needs disability that results from prenatal alcohol exposure.
With insight from Michael being a psychologist (since 1997) and a foster parent (since 2012), you can learn FASD basics as well as advanced concepts without the jargon or the judging, plus plenty of practical FASD tips & tools, news, and interviews with other FASD experts.
It's FASD support whenever you need it from this podcast about better understanding FASD and its many secondary disabilities.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2018
3 Mistakes To Avoid With FASD and Chronic Lateness - FASD Elephant™ Podcast #020
If you've struggled with constant lateness, this story is for you!
After sharing a little about Podfest 2018, you can hear a short but not-s…
Not Exactly As Planned: Interview with Linda Rosenbaum - FASD Elephant™ Podcast #019
See www.FASDElephant.com for show notes.
FASD Elephant™ #016: Interview with Jody Allen Crowe - Health Brains for Children
The 2013 FASD Matters Conference in November was a terrific experience! I met a lot of great new fol…
Relaunching the FASD Elephant Podcast & Blog 2014
This is a quick podcast announcement that the FASD Elephant™ is relaunching as a podcast AND blog. The podcasts will be more from my perspective as a psychologist, while the blogs will be a mix of ps…
FASD Elephant™ #015: #FASD & Suicidality
This podcast episode is an excerpt of my part speaking on a panel titled FASD and Suicidality at the 2011 IHS Action Summit for Suicide Prevention held in Scottsdale, AZ.
Podcast…
FASD Elephant™ #014: Interview with Morgan Fawcett – A Flute Like Medicine: Part 2
Welcome to the FASD Elephant™ Podcast. Today we’re going to continue with the last half of my interview with Morgan Fawcett on May 25th, 2011. More details are in the previous podcast, number 13.
Her…
FASD Elephant (TM) #013: Interview with Morgan Fawcett – A Flute Like Medicine: Part 1
Welcome to the FASD Elephant™ Podcast. After a hiatus for way too long, the podcast is back.
I’ve had a very exciting year so far in the world of FASD. A major highlight in February 2011 was four day…
FASD Elephant (TM) #012: FASD School Intervention: Getting Back to Ready
Students with FASD sometimes have “melt-downs” in school. These melt-downs can baffle and anger teachers, staff, and parents, but they are simply the student’s way of showing that they cannot cope wi…
FASD Elephant (TM) Re-Run: KTOO Interview with Morgan Fawcett, Flute Player
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FASD Elephant (TM) #011: The Secondary Disabilities of FASD
People with FASD (including FAS) have both primary and secondary disabilities. Secondary disabilities are those disabilities that arise because of a mismatch between the brain damage and factors in t…
FASD Elephant (TM) #010: The Primary Disabilities of FASD
People with FASD (including FAS) have both primary and secondary disabilities. Primary disabilities are those with which the person is born, such as seizures, sensory integration problems, etc. These…
FASD Elephant (TM) #009: Preparing for an FASD Evaluation
FASD Elephant (TM) #008: The FASD Wheel (TM) - The Ten Brain Domains of FAS and FASD
Today's podcast reviews the Ten Brain Domains of FAS and FASD in a little more depth; it is still an overview but gives more flesh to the domains in the context of completing an FASD Wheel.
This is t…
FASD Elephant (TM) #007: The FASD Wheel (TM) - Brain Functioning
Today's podcast reviews brain functioning and how it can be affected by FASD.
This is the second of a multi-part series edited from a workshop on the FASD Wheel (TM) presented at the 2007 Brain Confe…
FASD Elephant (TM) #006: The FASD Wheel (TM) - Misattributions and Metaphors
Today's podcast reviews useful metaphors and non-useful misattributions regarding FASD. This is the first of a multi-part series edited from a workshop on the FASD Wheel (TM) presented at the 2007 Br…
FASD Elephant (TM) #005: The Ten Brain Domains
FASD Elephant (TM) #004: Other FASD Diagnoses
FASD Elephant (TM) #003: The Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Diagnosis
Any Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is diagnosed by assessing the four key features that were first identified in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) in 1973.
FAS requires a positive and severe findi…
FASD Elephant (TM) #002: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) History and Diagnostic Introduction
The earliest known observation of possible links between maternal alcohol use and fetal damage may have been made in 1899 by Dr. William Sullivan, a Liverpool prison physician who noted higher…