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This is a place for connecting and sharing resources across Greater Manchester for professionals, families and people with FASD. Greater Manchester is one of the country’s leading areas of best practice on FASD and collectively we are building brighter futures. Join us!
FASD is a spectrum. Each person with FASD is affected differently.
While more than 400 conditions can co-occur, FASD is at its core a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition.
All people with FASD have many strengths. Early diagnosis and appropriate support are essential, especially for executive functioning.
(Source: FASD Preferred UK Language Guide, Seashell Trust/National FASD,2020)
If FASD is not diagnosed early and a child does not receive appropriate support, they are more likely to experience challenges associate with the condition.
FASD is often considered a ‘hidden disability’ and is preventable.
The UK’s first gold-standard active case-ascertainment FASD prevalence study shows that at least 1.8-3.6% of the children assessed met the criteria for an FASD diagnosis, some of the children at the highest risk of having FASD were unable to be included so this is a conservative estimate.
FASD could affect over
103,000
people in Greater Manchester.
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