Project
Literacy and Life Skills for Aboriginal Children and Youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Brief Description: An interdisciplinary project designed to help teachers, parents and other service providers find culturally respectful and effective ways to teach reading, writing and other life skills to Aboriginal children with FASD.
Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Linda Wason-Ellam, Professor, College of Education, Curriculum Studies, University of Saskatchewan, phone: 306-966-7578; email: linda.wason-ellam@usask.ca
Partner: Saskatchewan Fetal Alcohol Support Network
Co-investigators: Priscilla Settee (extension division); Patricia Blakley (medicine); Mark Carter (law); Stephen Wormith (psychology); Penelope Andrews (South African national, School of Law, City University of New York).
Collaborator: Wayne Podmoroff (psychologist, Government of Nunavut).
Graduate Student: Rae Mitten (Interdisciplinary PhD candidate and resident, Native Law Centre).
Elders: Wes Fineday and Jeanette Bugler
Grant Author and Intellectual Property of: Rae Mitten, Native Law Centre, University of Saskatchewan; phone: 306-966-6200 ext.7568; email: hrm752@mail.usask.ca.
Start/End Date: September 2006 – September 2009
Location: Saskatchewan
Time Frame: ongoing
Kind of Project: Qualitative inductive research following the recommendations for Aboriginal research
Population Served: urban, rural, remote, and on and off reserve
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