A Family Living With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders / Educational Video

Public domain video. The Story Of Iyal. Source: National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. A mother tells her compelling story about a family living with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Every family has unique experiences, challenges and successes. The intent is not to endorse specific interventions, but to share one family’s story and hope. The Story of Iyal: [Donnie Kanter Winokur] We started seeing a lot of hyperactivity and emotionality so we started getting a little concerned. When we first saw the developmental pediatrician, he suspected that there was an underlying syndrome due to fetal alcohol exposure. A diagnosis gives you some validation. We can say this is a disability that is a result of a birth defect. Living with a child with fetal alcohol syndrome is like living with a constant anticipation of a hurricane. Over time you understand, on so many different levels, how this impacts not only your child, but your family. It’s very hard to be a sibling of a child with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. It’s hard as a parent not to put this burden on your typical kid because it’s like you want to say, “You’re the easy one, don’t act out.” We know there is no magic bullet; there is no one thing that is going to change everything. Having some OT and speech and physical therapy certainly helped. And you want to try to teach social skills to your child. But I think the intervention that I am most excited about is that we obtained a service dog …
Video Rating: 4 / 5