FASD – Late Adolescence (17 – 22)
The main goals :
- move out of home
- establish his own life
- learn to cope with societal rules – increase personal expectation with diminishing parental support (lots of teens without FASD have trouble with this)
Trouble Areas:
- undereducated
- poor money management
- loneliness
- lack of boundaries
- poor judgement
He may lack the emotional and / or the educational maturity to embark on an independent life but he still has the internal and societal programming that makes him want to do it.
GUIDELINES FOR PARENTS
Your late adolescent meeds a combination of:
- support
- encouragement
- patience
- letting go
It may be best to try to ease your young person into independence by having him board with someone or home share with a responsible adult or convert the garage to a granny flat or have him move into a group home.
This is the stage of life when some individuals begin families of their own. A person with FASD usually requires an enormous amount of support