This excellent webinar is designed for caregivers, therapists, educators, and professionals who want to better support children, youth, and adults with FASD in developing a safe, healthy, and respectful sexuality. It offers real-world strategies grounded in neuroscience, trauma-informed care, and clinical experience, to help adults feel more confident supporting sexual well-being while reducing risk and promoting dignity and safety.
It explores:
• common challenges related to sexuality across different developmental stages
• frequent misunderstandings and risk factors caregivers and professionals should be aware of
• how neurodevelopmental differences impact consent, boundaries, relationships, and online safety
• practical, concrete, and creative tools that help teach sexual health while preventing harm
• how to have clear, compassionate, and developmentally appropriate conversations—without shame or fear.
The webinar is led by two experienced therapists who have worked for many years alongside individuals with FASD and their families, Dr Maude Champagne and Angela Geddes.
Maude Champagne brings extensive clinical, research, and personal experience to her Canadian organisation, Interwoven Connections, which hosts this webinar. She is the mother of five children through birth and adoption, and her children (now teens) were older adoptees when they came together as a family. Maude has a Ph.D. in neurosciences from Queen’s University with a specialty in FASD, Trauma, and Aggression toward Family/Caregivers in Childhood & Adolescence (AFCCA). She is also a registered social worker and psychotherapist and completed her MSW with a thesis on the experiences of parents raising children with FASD and developmental trauma while undergoing Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP).
Anne Geddes is a registered social worker, psychotherapist, and author with over 30 years of experience supporting individuals and families impacted by complex neurodevelopmental and mental health challenges, including FASD and trauma.
Click here to watch the webinar.
These are publications for further reading which are mentioned in the webinar.
• Body Boundaries Make Me Stronger
by Elizabeth Cole
• Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent and Respect: Teach children about body ownership, respect, feelings, choices and recognising bullying behaviours
by Jayneen Sanders
• Finding My Way: Nurturing Sexual Identity in Children with Intellectual Disabilities (2026)
by Dr Shaniff Esmail (Author), Kelly Woodhouse (Author)
