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FASD - Submission to House of Representatives
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Thursday, 01 December 2011 21:41
The National Council on Intellectual Disability (NCID) welcomes and supports this long overdue inquiry into Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). NCID has a very particular interest in addressing this issue as:
Prenatal alcohol exposure, and the resulting FASD, is recognized as the commonest preventable cause of intellectual disability. (K.D.O'Malley, 2007)
It is of great concern to NCID that people with FASD are the single largest most undiagnosed, unrecognised cause of disability in the community which attracts no funding and no support or assistance. NCID is strongly supportive of NOFASARD’s statement that the abysmal failure of Australian Governments to address FASD is a clear breach of human rights particularly the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities:
States Parties shall: provide those health services needed by persons with disabilities specifically because of their disabilities, including early identification and intervention as appropriate, and services designed to minimise and prevent further disabilities, including among children.
(UNCRPD Article 25 (b))
FASD - submission to House of Reps (
