Screening Tools
Forensic FASD Behavior Screen (screens for informant observations of FASD-associated behaviors in your client)
FASD Birth Mother Interview
FASD Screening Questionnaire for Legal Teams
Interpreting Behaviors of Youth with FASD (Provided by the Police Service of Edmonton, Canada)
FASD Checklist
Early Development
- Failure to thrive
- Tremors or jitteriness
- Seizures
- Feeding problems in infancy
- Sleeping problems
- Vision and/or hearing problems
- Difficulty with toilet training, wetting, or soiling
- Problems with personal hygiene
- Difficulty with the onset of puberty
- Problems with sexual functioning
Childhood Appearance
- Shorter or thinner than other children his age
- Anything unusual or different about eyes? (wide-spaced, smaller than normal, slanted, droopy eyelids)
- Anything unusual about mouth or upper lip? (long and/or smooth space between upper lip and nose, thin upper lip)
- Anything else about face or body during childhood that was unusual
Communication / Speech
- Loud, deep, or unusual sounding voice
- Talks too much, too fast
- Interrupts a lot
- Unusual conversational subjects
- Very opinionated
- Speaks indistinctly
- Makes off the wall comments
- Repeats phrases / words frequently
- Other
Memory / Learning / Information Processing
- Poor / inconsistent memory
- Slow to learn new skills
- Does not seem to learn from past mistakes
- Difficulty recognizing consequences before acting
- Slow information processing speed and accuracy
- Other
Behavior Regulation
- Poor anger management
- Fearless in the face of danger
- Mood swings
- Impulsive
- Compulsive
- Perseverative
- Inattentive
- Unusual activity level (high or low)
- Illogical lying
- Illogical stealing
- Unusual reactivity to sound__, touch __, light __
- Rocks or swings rhythmically
- Bangs head, bites or hits self
- Fidgety, can’t sit still
- Other
Abstract Thinking / Judgment
- Poor judgment
- Unable to plan and execute
- Functions poorly without assistance
- Concrete, black or white thinking
- Other
Planning / Temporal Skills
- Needs help organizing daily tasks
- Cannot organize time
- Misses appointments
- Has difficulty with multi-step instructions
- Other
Spatial Skills / Spatial Memory
- Gets lost easily, has difficulty navigating from point A to point B
- Poor memory for sequences and dates
- Other
Motor Skills
- Poor / delayed motor skills
- Overly active
- Poor balance
- Accident prone
- Other
Social Skills / Adaptive Behavior
- Poor social/adaptive skills
- Overly friendly
- Attention-seeking
- Behaves notably younger than chronological age
- Few close friends
- Easily led/manipulated by others
- Laughs inappropriately
- Poor social/sexual boundaries
- Inappropriate social behaviors
- Other
Academic / Work Performance
- Gives impression of being more capable than he actually is
- Tries hard and wants to please, but end result is often disappointing
- Has trouble completing tasks
- Has problems with school / job attendance
- School drop-out
- Poor work history
- Other