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Fantastic Antone Succeeds: Experiences in Educating Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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On a personal level this book has been a godsend!.Our child was recently diagnosed with FAE and this book has been our bible. You can refer to any section of this book at any time for helpful information. From reading this book, I now see my child as a child with special needs and not as a monster child! . My child didn't ask to be born this way,it is not my child's fault! . I see hope where once there was despair. I would love this book to be part of all teachers curriculum! .

...after reading countless books on ADHD...this book was the first thing that made any sense at all, and finally gave me the information I needed to get my stepson diagnosed properly at age 12.... This book would be the quickest and best way, other than through years of living with someone with FAS, to try to understand the complexities of this condition. MOST people cannot understand it until they either have lived with it for years, worked with it for years, or at the very least read this book. Highly recommended. Dont raise, teach, or work with a FAS child and thier family without this kind of knowledge.

Fantastic Antone Succeeds is a wonderfully informative book full of true-to-life stories from parents of FAS kids and helpful advice from educators who have worked with them. I came away with a greater all-around knowledge of the condition and a reasuring feeling that I wasn't the only one out there 'in the trenches'. If you are the parent of an FAS/E child or an educator, this is an invaluable handbook to take with you on your journey. e-mail brownla@midstatesd.net

This is a wonderful positive book for parents and caregivers of FAS/FAE children. I have read so much negative and disheartening material on the subject of fetal alcohol syndrome which gave me little hope for the future for my son. This book gives me hope and guidelines for enhancing his life. The chapters written by other parents are especially helpful. I thank the authors for their research and sincerity in their work. We, as parents, need assistance and guidelines in heading off some of the secondary disabilities which often come with fetal alcohol syndrome. This book offers some real answers! I keep it on the kitchen table so I can refer to it often.

I am the adoptive mom of two great kids with fas/fae and I found this book to be a Godsend. When I feel discouraged about my kids, or frustrated by their behavior, I read Fantastic Antone and I regain my sense of hope. I have lent it to all of my kids' teachers and have used it at trainings and seminars. Looking forward to reading "Grows Up"! Thank you Judy!!

As an adoptive parent of a toddler with suspected FAS/FAE, I found this to be the most useful of all the books that I researched. In fact, I was able to check this out of the library first and I dog-eared so many pages - and made so many notes from it - that I figured I'd better just order a copy for home. I love the fact that the book profiles so many different kids with FAS/FAE so you can get the sense of the range of behaviors and disabilities as no 2 kids are the same. And I love the practical techniques that worked and the lessons learned about what didn't work. Given that I don't have a child devleopment background and given that raising a child with FAS/FAE is all about trial and error, I really appreciate understanding this with specific examples rather than high level "frameworks". Our daughter is still quite young so we don't yet know how her risk factors will limit her although she is already showing early signs of eyesight, coordination and speech difficulties and hyperactivity. This books has given me techniques to try so we can intervene as early as possible while her brain is forming.

Alot of our Society even the school teachers are unfamiliar with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome which is sad. I believe every person that has anything to do with teaching or couseling should learn about this. I found this book to be very helpful as a special education teacher.