Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 4, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunday Buddha blasted a Mountainside Buddha was demolished yesterday As islamic extremists purge Afghanistan of statues Winnipeg free press Margo Goodhand 6977076 d h i she Hes always right Laura Doyle says marriages improve when women submit wholly to their men a new kind of teaching program at David Livingstone school embraces kids with fetal alcohol syndrome the number of Canadian children diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome has soared in the last in where 240 fas babies Are born every healthcare work ers and educators Are finding themselves Pio neers amid what some Call an in the second of our two part reporter Carol Sanders takes us inside an extraordinary school in Winnipeg North by Carol Sanders a Little girl fills up a White plastic baby Bathtub with Snow that Shes found in front of David Livingstone its 8 on a frigid school she Doest know but Shes part of a groundbreaking Experiment that gaining attention across North in the toughest part of Point a prototype for Inte grated schooling for children with fetal alcohol syndrome is it has made National headlines and its principal is kept hopping sharing the information being gathered about How to teach kids until have been written off As unreachable or David Livingstone school started its Bridges program six years a Cluster of children with fas at the Anne Ross Day Nursery across the Street were preparing to Start kindergarten at David Livingstone and the school realized it had better be How do we meet the needs of these kids was the ques said Angeline principal of the school that has 385 there was very Little knowledge of what fas she it started by setting up the Bridges program for kindergarten kids that provided a special set teachers and resource people to help the As those kids advanced through the the Bridges pro Gram did As there Are integrated Grade 1 and 2 classrooms along with a new Grade 3 to 6 classroom for the older the program devel oped using trial and there Are no text the regular behaviour management approach Doest Ramkissoon said in her Susan Bryant reads to the fas kids in her kindergarten Tulit us ill where classical music plays in the background and wire mesh covers the tiny the school puts on fas workshops for other teachers in the it has organized a conference in april with one of the experts on teaching fas the following Ramkissoon is booked to speak at an fas Confer ence in educators Are clamouring for information about How to help their she the kids dont understand consequences or cause and said and they wont grow out of continued please see fas b2 Kaitlin enjoys some Down time in the classroom Bunny a Haven from the activity on the Fass lifelong effects people can have some or All of the following characteristics i infants infants display primary disabilities such As weak problems with sleep ing and failure to delayed poor motor control and poor i preschoolers in the preschool problems such As attention perceptual language problems and poor motor co ordination Are com i school age kids Atten Tion learning arithmetic cognitive language problems and poor impulse i in adolescence and adulthood memory impair problems with judgment and abstract reasoning and poor adaptive functioning Are fas some common secondary disabilities characteristic of adolescents and adults include being easily victim unfocused and difficulty handling problems learning from trouble understand ing consequences and perceiving social poor frustration inappropriate sexual behave substance mental health problems and trouble with the source fetal alcohol syndrome implications for correctional service of 1998 March 711 Produn by Manitoba Home builders association w All three Over it featuring 250 exciting exhibitors ;