Thursday, March 2, 2017

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Seymour

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B8 - Motor Skills and FASD: Translating Knowledge into Clinical Practice – from Three Countries Tracy Jirikowic, Barbara Lucas, Alison Pritchard Orr, Kathy Keiver, Lin-Ya Hsu This session will present international perspectives on best practices for motor assessment. It will review available pre-clinical and clinical evidence supporting interventions that aim to remediate motor impairments and/or use exercise or movement-based approaches to enhance behavior and learning for children with FASD. Learning Objectives: 1. Review evidence based literature (including observational and neuroimaging studies) regarding motor deficits associated with PAE and/or FASD 2. Recognize the importance of motor skill assessment in FASD diagnosis, and appreciate differences between international FASD guidelines in motor skill assessment 3. Be cognizant of standardized assessment tools available for motor assessment and identify issues related to their use in the diagnosis of FASD (i.e. cut-offs to determine impairment, comprehensive vs screening assessments, outcome reporting) 4. Examine evidence based literature (including animal studies) and highlight current intervention research to guide interventions for children with motor deficits associated with a FASD diagnosis and consider implications for clinical practice