FASD and sleep – work from Canada

 

Below is an abstract of a presentation by Dr L A Scott at The Ninth World Congress on Brain Injury International Brain Injury Association Edinburgh, Scotland, 2013. 

 

As a multidisciplinary team specializing in diagnosing prenatal brain injury (Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders) we have added sleep inventories and sleep studies to our practice. 

The results of that new initiative have resulted in our formalizing both how sleep difficulties are screened by participating in a Canadian Consortium on Sleep in FASD to develop a comprehensive list of screening questions as well as standardizing when/where the sleep studies are performed. 

The resulting research indicates that 100% of those who completed a comprehensive sleep study received at least one diagnosis under sleep issues. Snoring and apnea were least reported but high arousal indices and unusual findings within sleep architecture were frequently found.

We will present our findings of these sleep studies as well our recommendations for sleep studies being included as part of practice in other forms of ABI/TBI.

Dr L. A. Scott
Paediatric Neuropsychologist, Ontario, Canada

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