The NB approach, or neurobehavioral approach, also called the brain-based approach, is an understanding of FASDs as a physical disability. Because alcohol causes structural, developmental, and even cellular differences in the brain as it is developing in utero, FASD is truly brain damage. Typically the only symptoms of this brain damage that we will see are behavioral changes. Individuals with FASD may be slow to respond to ask a question,\u00a0 may have difficulty making decisions, may have trouble \u2018acting their age\u2019 or doing tasks independently. They may have difficulty learning in a \u2018typical\u2019 classroom and may struggle socially.<\/p>\n
That said, every person with FASD is different, and the NB approach teaches caregivers, family members and professionals to see the difficulties and strengths of each individual with FASD and use these difficulties and strengths to make accommodations that set that person up for success. Since FASD is a physical disability it only makes sense to do for folks with FASD the same as we do for others with more visible physical disabilities: provide accommodations and environmental change.<\/p>\n
A description of the\u00a0NB Approach can be found in Diane Malbin\u2019s book,\u00a0\u00a0FASD: Trying Differently Rather Than Harder<\/em>. Our organization, Families Affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (fafasd.net) presents trainings about caring for, living with, working with, and supporting people with FASDs using the neurobehavioral model.\u00a0\u00a0Please see our Workshops and Training<\/a>\u00a0page for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NB approach, or neurobehavioral approach, also called the brain-based approach, is an understanding of FASDs as a physical disability. Because alcohol causes structural, developmental, and even cellular differences in the brain as it is developing in utero, FASD is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13,20,10,8,14,9,18,19,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fafasd.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fafasd.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fafasd.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fafasd.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fafasd.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fafasd.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/fafasd.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fafasd.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fafasd.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fafasd.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fafasd.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}