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Maternal alcohol use disorder was associated with a significantly increased odds of poor school attendance for non-Indigenous and Indigenous children.

The aim of this article is to describe a three phase formative process to develop and pilot a curriculum version of the Alert Program®

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Australia: Practice guidelines for diagnosis and management

Children of mothers with alcohol use disorders are at risk of not meeting minimum educational benchmarks in numeracy and literacy, with the risk highest among Indigenous children.

Barriers in addressing FASD in Australia include a drinking culture and large populations living in regional or remote communities with high risk populations.

Few studies have examined graphomotor skills in children with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)

A higher than expected proportion of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders had gross motor scores that indicated impairment and need for therapy

To examine fetal outcomes of mothers with an alcohol-related diagnosis.

Benefits in teaching the Alert Program® to students in a region with high reported rates of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and self-regulation impairment

The effects of maternal alcohol-use disorder are experienced by the majority of exposed children rather than a vulnerable subgroup of this population