• An Attention Deficit Bill of Rights
• Tips for Parents and Teachers
• 35 Good Things About Having ADHD
• Teaching Tips for Attention Deficit

• Child and Adolescent Bipolar

• CAPD

• Beware of the Parents Trap

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

• Adult Transition
  • Broken Beaks and Wobbly Wings
• Education
  • Teaching Social Skills
  • Research Provides New Insight
• Employment
  • What Works For John's Employment
• Helping Prenatal Exposed Infants
  • Foster Family Needed for Prenatal Exposed Infants
  • Issues in Fostering the Substance Exposed Infant
  • Ways to comfort a drug withdrawing baby
• In the Court System
  • FASD in the Court System
  • Teens With FASD and Criminal Justice
  • Mistakes I have Made With FASD Clients
• Off-Site Links
  • MOFAS - Minnesota Organization for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
  • Available Literature
    • Online Posters, Brochures and Handouts
• Parenting
  • Change You -- To Help Them
  • Parenting the FASD Child
  • Parenting Children with Neurological Differences
  • Minimizing Caregiver Stress
  • If I Knew Then What I Know Now
• Stories from the Trenches
  • Growing Together With FAS
  • Alaskan Encounter-Days of Light
  • Who's Child Broiled a Cat?
• Understanding
  • Understanding FAS and it's Effects
  • How Does Pre-Natal Exposure to Alcohol Affect the Likelihood of Mental Health Diagnoses?
  • Attention Deficit vs. Fetal Alcohol
  • Ten Tips for Transition
  • Ten Tips for Impulse Control
  • Won't vs. Can't
  • Factors to Consider

• 504 Accommodation Checklist
• Examples of People First Language
• Interacting With Persons' With Disabilities
• Watch Your Language
• Buying Toys for Children With Disabilities

• A Hidden Disability
• Positive Ways to Encourage Child's Growth
• Discovering Learning Disabilities
• Learning Disabilities Present Adult Challenges

• What is it?

• Special Needs Resources in Minnesota
• Information on Wavered Service Program

• Super Supporting
• How to ASK for Support
• How to GIVE Support
• Quiz: How Supportive are You? 
• Tips For Explaining Possible Disabilities
• Developing a Supportive Environment
• To the Editor

Foster and Adoptive Care Association of Minnesota
P.O. box 48716
Minneapolis, MN 55448-0716
612-233-3399

Articles have been reprinted from News and Views of Our Families 1992-2004