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STRAWBERRY & CRACKER: Twins with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Story by Barbara Studham; Illustrated by Heather Lamb A Vianvi Podcast Book Review by Viga Boland Hello there and welcome back to VIANVI book reviews with author and book reviewer, Viga Boland. Today I have an absolutely wonderful and very special book for you, but before I tell you about this book, I would like to tell you a little bit about the person behind the book. Her name is Barbara Studham. I had the pleasure of meeting Barbara several years ago when she attended my very first memoir writing workshop. Barbara had attended the workshop that day in the hopes of getting some tips on blogging. At that time, Barbara wrote a blog, and still does, titled “challenged hope”. Her blog was designed for people like her, folks who were involved with the very difficult task of raising children with fetal alcohol syndrome. Now, to be honest, before Barbara came into my life, I knew very little, if anything at all, about children afflicted by fetal alcohol syndrome. She opened my eyes to a world doctors have yet to fully explore, a world where children with FAS are often misdiagnosed as having ADHD. Yes, the symptons are very similar, but unlike ADHD, the answer to treating FAS doesn’t lie in medication, all of which I learned about when Barbara went on to write her first memoir, TWO DECADES OF DIAPERS. In that book, Barbara detailed what it was like for her to raise her 4 FAS grandchildren, singlehandedly, over a period of 22 years. Barbara has since written a sequel to that first memoir, titled
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