❓ A WA parliamentary question addresses the estimated number of FASD cases in WA and the availability of government services for diagnosis and support, revealing limited data on adults and highlighting existing support services for children.
AnsweredQoN 1206Legislative Council
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FOETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER
I refer to foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. (1) What is the estimated number of children and adults in Western Australia with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder? (2) Are there any government services in Western Australia that diagnose and support children or adults with FASD; and, if not, why not? Hon SUE ELLERY
I refer to foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. (1) What is the estimated number of children and adults in Western Australia with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder? (2) Are there any government services in Western Australia that diagnose and support children or adults with FASD; and, if not, why not? Hon SUE ELLERY
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) One hundred and twenty-eight cases of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia were notified to the Birth Defects Registry from 1980 to 2005. These are for cases aged up to six years. Data is not held on adult numbers. (2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
(1) What is the estimated number of children and adults in Western Australia with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder? (2) Are there any government services in Western Australia that diagnose and support children or adults with FASD; and, if not, why not? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) One hundred and twenty-eight cases of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia were notified to the Birth Defects Registry from 1980 to 2005. These are for cases aged up to six years. Data is not held on adult numbers. (2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
(2) Are there any government services in Western Australia that diagnose and support children or adults with FASD; and, if not, why not? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) One hundred and twenty-eight cases of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia were notified to the Birth Defects Registry from 1980 to 2005. These are for cases aged up to six years. Data is not held on adult numbers. (2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) One hundred and twenty-eight cases of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia were notified to the Birth Defects Registry from 1980 to 2005. These are for cases aged up to six years. Data is not held on adult numbers. (2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) One hundred and twenty-eight cases of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia were notified to the Birth Defects Registry from 1980 to 2005. These are for cases aged up to six years. Data is not held on adult numbers. (2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
(1) One hundred and twenty-eight cases of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia were notified to the Birth Defects Registry from 1980 to 2005. These are for cases aged up to six years. Data is not held on adult numbers. (2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
(2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
(1) What is the estimated number of children and adults in Western Australia with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder? (2) Are there any government services in Western Australia that diagnose and support children or adults with FASD; and, if not, why not? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) One hundred and twenty-eight cases of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia were notified to the Birth Defects Registry from 1980 to 2005. These are for cases aged up to six years. Data is not held on adult numbers. (2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
(2) Are there any government services in Western Australia that diagnose and support children or adults with FASD; and, if not, why not? Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) One hundred and twenty-eight cases of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia were notified to the Birth Defects Registry from 1980 to 2005. These are for cases aged up to six years. Data is not held on adult numbers. (2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
Hon SUE ELLERY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) One hundred and twenty-eight cases of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia were notified to the Birth Defects Registry from 1980 to 2005. These are for cases aged up to six years. Data is not held on adult numbers. (2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) One hundred and twenty-eight cases of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia were notified to the Birth Defects Registry from 1980 to 2005. These are for cases aged up to six years. Data is not held on adult numbers. (2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
(1) One hundred and twenty-eight cases of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia were notified to the Birth Defects Registry from 1980 to 2005. These are for cases aged up to six years. Data is not held on adult numbers. (2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
(2) Current treatment and therapy for related delays and disorders for children with this condition can be sought at the State Child Development Centre or metropolitan and regional child and community development health centres. To support clinicians, the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has developed and distributed an educational booklet entitled “Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Professionals Making a Difference”. Commencing on 31 July 2007, child and adolescent community health centres, in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, convened a symposium and three Westlink broadcasts titled Health Professionals Making a Difference: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding . The object of this series and the supporting audio and visual material was to develop the knowledge and skills of professionals in identifying and implementing preventive health promotion strategies to reduce alcohol consumption by at-risk pregnant women.
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