About Us

Alberta Education identified a need for an on-line learning resource that would be flexible and accessible for school staff supporting children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and other disabilities. Alberta Education provided a grant to Mount Royal University (MRU) to develop a website to meet that need.

Whether you have just ten minutes or several hours this website is a resource you can turn to for ideas and strategies to enhance your capacity to support children in their development. While no two children are alike, this site will help you determine how to increase your student’s motivation to develop adaptive behaviours, minimizing their reliance on challenging behaviours to meet their needs. The strategies are derived from evidence-based practice and research. The theory is explained, however if you are already familiar with it, it is easy to skip over.

This website is a collaborative effort led by two departments at MRU. The Project Leaders worked with experts in Alberta Education to develop content and video.

Project Leaders:

• Linda Fountain, Department of Social Work & Disability Studies (former Chair/Associate Professor). Current: Fountain Counselling & Education. lindafountainconsulting@gmail.com
• Joanne Baxter, Department of Child and Youth Studies, MRU

Alberta Education Lead:

• Catherine Walker
• Chris Farquharson

Contributors and Developers

• Paula Coombs
• Dwaine Souveny

Content on Adaptive and Challenging Behaviour adapted from Aide website:

• Writers/Content Developers:
  • Society for the Treatment of Autism, Team Leader: Kim Ward, Adele Gafka, Murray Gaetz, Brenda Wojtula, Sarah Everett LEAD, Arlene Klooster and Susan Robinson GRIT, Barb Reid and Joan MacDonald, MRU: Joanne Baxter, Mitchell Clark and Linda Fountain
    
    
• Instructional Development and Web Design:
  Media Learning Systems, Dr. Jonathan Ross
• Video Production:
  Teaching & Learning Centre, University of Calgary
  Producer/Director: Fred Fountain; Camera/ Editor: Lawrie Edison
  
  
• Marketing Graphics:
  Creative Groove, Brenda Hanna
  
  
• Project Assistants:
  Project and Financial Associate, MRU: Kim Blackwell
  Administrative Assistants, MRU: Lynda Martin and Anita Lawson
  Copyright and Project Assistant, Wendy Stephens
  Content Editor: Quo Vadimus Communications, Teresa Wong