ArticleDevelopmental neurorehabilitation2018
GoFAR: improving attention, behavior and adaptive functioning in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Brief report.
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- Behavioral interventions for individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A review of systematic reviews.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Pooled it
- First Evidence-Based Guideline for Interventions in FASD.Neuropediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Behavioural and cognitive-behavioural interventions for outwardly directed aggressive behaviour in people with intellectual disabilities.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Interventions to Improve Mental Health and Substance Use Outcomes for Individuals with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2020Pooled it
- Adverse childhood experiences in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and their effects on behavior.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023Review
- Interventions for improving executive functions in children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD): A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2022Review
- Parental interaction style, child engagement, and emerging executive function in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2022Article
- Multi-domain computerized cognitive training for children with intellectual developmental disorder: A randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Fifty Years of Research on Prenatal Substances: Lessons Learned for the Opioid Epidemic.Adversity and resilience science · 2020Article
- Clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.The Lancet. Neurology · 2019Review
- PROTOCOL: Interventions for improving executive functions in children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Campbell systematic reviews · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis brief report describes the GoFAR intervention designed to improve attention, behavior, and adaptive functioning in children with FASD, ages 5 to 10 years.
methodsThirty children were randomized to one of three conditions: GoFAR; FACELAND, and CONTROL; 25 completed the interventions. Over 10 sessions children and caregivers learned a metacognitive strategy (FAR) designed to improve cognitive control of behavior and adaptive functioning and practiced it during behavior analog therapy. Attention, behavior problems, and adaptive skills were measured pre- and post-intervention.
resultsFrom pre- to post-testing the GoFAR intervention group improved on the Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA). Both intervention groups improved in Daily Living Skills.
conclusionThis pilot study demonstrated that children with FASD and their caregivers benefit from a focused intervention designed to improve effortful control of behavior. The study suggests the need for a larger clinical trial to evaluate the intervention's effectiveness.
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