Fantastic Antone Succeeds: Experiences in Educating Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome by Judith KleinfeldFantastic Antone Succeeds: Experiences in Educating Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome by Judith Kleinfeld

Fantastic Antone Succeeds: Experiences in Educating Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

byJudith Kleinfeld

Paperback | June 1, 1993

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For every 1,000 live births in Alaska, between 2.1 and 6.6 babies are affected by FAS--a rate 6 to 18 times higher than the national average. Fantastic Antone Succeeds!describes in concrete, specific ways how to educate children with fetal alcohol syndrome/fetal alcohol effects (FAS/FAE). It communicates an optimistic message that is both true and appealing: with the right education, delivered by a nurturing individual in the home or in the school, many alcohol-affected children thrive.

The book consists of separate chapters written in a popular and accessible style by psychologists, teachers, and birth and adoptive parents of alcohol-affected children. Many chapters are personal stories with emotional power. A birth mother, for example, tells of her anguish when she realizes that she has recovered from her own alcoholism but her daughter cannot. This mother describes how she dealt with her grief, how she told her daughter the truth, her daughter's relief at finally understanding what was wrong, and how they both developed ways of overcoming her daughter's learning problems.

Other chapters describe how experienced teachers have learned to organize classrooms where alcohol-affected children can thrive and how therapists have learned to work with parents. One chapter summarizes medical knowledge of FAS/FAE and offers information useful for understanding a child's learning and behavioral problems and devising educational approaches. The book includes lists of important resources, organizations to contact, and descriptions of effective classroom practices for teachers.

Without minimizing the seriousness of FAS/FAE and the first priority prevention, Fantastic Antone Succeeds provides practical tools and strategies that can help alcohol-affected individuals and their families lead happier, more productive lives.
Judith Kleinfeld is founder and director of the Northern Studies program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has published numerous books and articles, including Gender Tales: Tensions in the Schools (St. Martin's Press, 1995) and two books on fetal alcohol syndrome/effects, Fantastic Antone Succeeds and Fantastic Antone Grows U...
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Title:Fantastic Antone Succeeds: Experiences in Educating Children with Fetal Alcohol SyndromeFormat:PaperbackDimensions:372 pages, 9 × 6 × 0.9 inPublished:June 1, 1993Publisher:University of Alaska Press

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ISBN - 10:091200665X

ISBN - 13:9780912006659

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Rated 4 out of 5 by from Not Just for Educators! I had thought that this book would be simply about looking at FAS/FASD from the perspective of educators. What the book actually looks at is FAS/FASD as a whole: how it affects the brain, what is needed in the home to build a solid foundation, and how classrooms have adapted to give them what they need to learn. Anybody who is planning on working with kids who have FAS/FASD should read this book. Besides being informative, it was printed in an age when people thought a diagnosis of FAS/FASD meant you could never have a normal life. The book rexamines that philosophy by pointing out the successes people with FAS/FASD have had, and what it took from parents and educators to get them there.
Date published: 2010-07-20

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
     Judith Kleinfeld
 
Part I
How Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
Affects Children and Their Families
 
Information Processing
     Barabara A. Morse
 
Growing with FAS
     Pamela Groupe Groves
 
Cindy's Story
     Anne Ruggles Gere
 
Color Plates
 
Part II
Parents' Know-How
 
Parental Advocacy for Alcohol-Affected Children
     Jan Lutke
 
Nurturing the Delicate Rose
     Sally Caldwell
 
Early Intervention for Alcohol-Affected Children
     Jan Hinde
 
Getting Jeffrey Ready for School
     Michele Saiz
 
Raising Alcohol-Affected Twins
     Christine King
 
On Raising Lisa
     Mary Wortley with David Wortley and the grandparents
 
Part III
Teachers' Techniques
 
Shut Up and Talk to Me
     Maureen Murphy
 
Snagging the Kite String
     Patricia Tanner-Halverson
 
Mainstreaming Children with FAS in a Small Rural School
     Patrice Winick
 
A One-Room Schoolhouse for Children with FAS/FAE
     Beulah Phillpot and Nancy Harrison
 
Part IV
Working with Families of Alcohol-Affected Children
 
Stereotypes and Realities
      Diane B. Malbin
 
Helping Families and Their Alcohol-Affected Children
     Rodger Hornby
 
Overcoming the Cycle of Failure and Frustration
     Antonie Rathbun
 
Color Plates
 
Conclusion
      Judith Kleinfeld
 
Appendix I
Education Techniques for Children with FAS/FAE
      Valborg Kvigne, Judy Struck, Ellen Engelhart, and Tracy West
 
Appendix II
Sources of Special Interest for Families and Educators
     David A. and Gails S. Hales
 
Literature Cited
Index