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Podcast: Life Skills 101
Episode: How to Diagnose and Cope with a Brain Based Diagnosis
Description: Today I am joined by Natalie Vecchione, Podcaster at FASD Hope and co-author, with Cindy LaJoy, of the new homeschooling book: Blazing New Homeschool Trails, Educating and Launching Teens with Developmental Disabilities.
Natalie explains how the book was born out of desperation, as she and her husband were parenting and raising a FASD student. FASD (Fetal Achhol Syndrome Disorder). This is a brain based diagnosis, and like many brain based diagnosis is on a spectrum, meaning people with this disability, has a range of manifestations, which can include physical, emotional and intellectual.
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