FASD Language Guide
The language we use has a powerful impact on the way people with FASD are perceived and treated. This Language Guide is intended to suggest language that can be used in conversations, presentations and reports about FASD in Aotearoa, but it's a good idea for all those who are around those with FASD read and understand it, including caregivers and whānau.
Views from the Bench: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the Courtroom.
In N Novick Brown (ed), Evaluating Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in the Forensic Context
(https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73628-6_18)
In this book chapter Judge FitzGerald, a District and Youth court judge in Auckland, addresses FASD and the law in New Zealand. He identifies low levels of awareness, absence of prevalence studies, lack of diagnostic capacity and barriers to essential services and supports as the major features regarding FASD in the New Zealand justice context.