Nathan E. Ory, M.A., shares that what we may see as “lying” is often a person’s fragmented attempt to keep track of events that are not fully understood. They “fill in the blanks” with whatever makes their experience seem to make sense to them. This one-pager provides some understanding with strategies to consider using when it appears a student may not be telling the truth.
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It is important to know that a student’s retelling of events may be altered due to the impacts of prenatal alcohol exposure. As this resource from Asante Centre shares, an individual’s communication may be (mis)interpreted as dishonest, silly, untrustworthy, and/or untrue etc. When we use a FASD approach our interventions become guided by our understanding of the brain-based impacts and deficits of memory, language, and abstract reasoning.
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