ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Special Educational Needs
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1623937
This article is part of the Research TopicEducation To Enhance The Inclusion Of All LearnersView all 17 articles
Educational Support for Learners with FASD – Results from German Expert Interviews
Provisionally accepted
Till Neuhaus1*
Friederike Gödecke2- 1Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
- 2Independent Researcher, Bielefeld, Germany
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The following article attempts to identify strategies, settings, and conditions which help children and adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) to successfully attend educational institutions/ schools. FASD must be considered a profound and extensive disability which is the result of exposition of the unborn child to alcohol during pregnancy. The existing literature addressing FASD and schooling is comparatively sparse, therefore the following article attempts to generate insights based on expert interviews. In the course of the analysis, three themes – (1) improving teacher knowledge about FASD, (2) allowing for higher degrees of individualization within schooling, and (3) helping children and adolescents with FASD by partly externalizing structures and decisions – could be identified. Each of the themes will be sketched out and the specific findings will be compared to already existing research.
Keywords: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, inclusion, educational support, Expert interviews, multiple disabilities
Received: 06 May 2025; Accepted: 15 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Neuhaus and Gödecke. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Till Neuhaus, till.neuhaus@uni-bielefeld.de
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