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Structure Stragtegies For Improving Outcomes

The document discusses strategies for improving outcomes for individuals with FASD brain injuries. It recommends making requests concrete by providing visual examples, establishing consistent routines using visual lists, and repeatedly teaching and practicing rules through role playing to improve memory and understanding.

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Structure Stragtegies For Improving Outcomes

The document discusses strategies for improving outcomes for individuals with FASD brain injuries. It recommends making requests concrete by providing visual examples, establishing consistent routines using visual lists, and repeatedly teaching and practicing rules through role playing to improve memory and understanding.

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Structure: Strategies for improving outcomes

Concept FASD Brain Strategy

Make requests concrete Clean your room is Ready, do, Done,


abstract. They don’t see Give them a picture of their clean room.
the mess you see. Ask them what steps they need to do to get
their room like the picture. If they need
more support provide a list. Ie, dishes to the
kitchen, clothes in the hamper etc.
Make things routines Remember their working Up at 7:30 am everyday (even weekends).
memory is faulty. A 8am breakfast
routine will put good 6pm dinner
habits into their long-term 7-8 TV time
memory which is easier for 9pm bedtime
them to access.
*** If you have to change routines because
**Visual lists of what to do of circumstances, be sure to frontload the
for every routine are changes and repeat – do not expect them
necessary. to just understand.

Teach and re-teach rules Information stored in the Repeat, repeat, repeat.
brain cannot be accessed Role-play what we want them to do and
because of verbal then role play what they saw us do and
receptive language repeat.
processing is VERY - If consequences are needed, they must
impaired. be immediate short-term
consequences connected to what
Punishment/consequence happened so that they can see the
s do not work because cause and effect.
they often have no ie. The drove through a red light. They
memory of their wrong must pull over and you drive for the
doing and cannot rest of that day. Have them repeat
generalize events. why you have taken over the driving.

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