Gradually the child will improve. As the attention span continues to develop, the FAS child will begin to improve with an abundance of vocabulary words. However, the principal problem of distractibility still remains to be a problem. The idea is to gradually teach the FAS child to sit longer periods of time, focusing on a task, even with distractibility factors present. A goal would be to have the child sitting for a period of thirty minutes or longer ignoring all outside stimulus.
The good news is, with early interventions still in place, a continuum of speech and language therapy with enable the child with FAS to continue to develop language appropriate skills for his/her grade level. There will be set backs, because what was learned today may be forgotten tomorrow; however, with continued work the individual will overcome many of the simple speech/language deficits.
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