Whakakotahitanga FASD Diagnostic Guidelines

Dr. Andi Crawford

Dr Andi Crawford (Tangata Tiriti, Pākehā) is a Clinical Psychologist with experience in Child Development and Mental Health and Addiction Services within Te Whatu Ora Te Matau a Māui, (Hawke’s Bay). She has supported a whole whānau approach by working with women and parents who experience addiction, as well as children who have been impacted by prenatal alcohol and drug exposure. Andi was the Tangata Tiriti co-lead for the development of the guidelines and has specifically contributed to the clinical evidence that informs the guidelines including diagnostic criteria.

Kara Te Whata-Maynard

Kara TeWhata-Maynard (Ngati Porou, Ngāti Hine) is a psychologist with over 18 years of experience supporting young people and whānau in education, child development, mental health, and youth forensic settings. Kara’s interest in FASD began in 2012. She is passionate about whānau voice, and assessment experiences that are positive, useful and of value. Kara developed Ngā Rāuru-ā-Māui, a holistic framework that supports whānau and professionals to consider a person’s strengths and areas of challenge at an individual, whānau, and community level. Engaging in culturally and clinically meaningful ways to develop a shared understanding of:

• Whakapapa: Inherited characteristics/ genetics/ talents/ thinking and learning skills;
• Hononga: Relationships/ how others see them/ how they engage with the world; and
• Ngā wheako ora: Lived Experiences.

Tracy Karanui-Golf

Tracy Karanui-Golf (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kuri) is a registered Speech-Language Therapist with over a decade of clinical experience and founder of Kōrero Connect Limited, providing kaupapa Māori SLT services from her papakāinga in Kaimaumau, Te Hiku o Te Ika.

Tracy’s practice is grounded in kaupapa Māori, centring whakapapa, tikanga, and the lived realities of whānau. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Bicultural Supervision from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and a Master’s degree from Te Wānanga o Raukawa, through which she developed Whatu, an original bicultural supervision framework for SLT. She supervises SLTs, works as Kaiākiaki Māori at Massey University, as a court-appointed Communication Assistant, and is actively involved in a range of New Zealand Speech-Language Therapy Association kaupapa including as Kaitiaki of a developing Māori SLT rōpu.

Sally Kedge

Sally Kedge (tāngata tiriti) is a Speech-language Therapist and court-appointed Communication Assistant and the Director/Coordinator of Talking Trouble Aotearoa NZ. Sally Kedge is a speech-language therapist and Communication Assistant in justice settings. She is the Director of a social enterprise, Talking Trouble Aotearoa NZ, which partners with children, young people and adults involved with justice, care and protection, and mental health processes to improve communication environments.

Dr. Kate Robertshaw

Dr Kate Robertshaw (Tangata Tiriti, Pākehā) is a Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician who has worked in Child Development within Te Whatu Ora Te Matau a Māui, (Hawke’s Bay) for 20 years. She works with whānau across Hawkes Bay with a wide range of neurodisabilities including learning difficulties, autism (Takiwātanga), ADHD (Aroreretini) and FASD (Te Iho Tātai-ā-Rongo) as well as whānau dealing with trauma and social disadvantage. Kate provided clinical advice for the development of the Whakakotahitanga guidelines using the Hawkes Bay experience of diagnosing FASD since 2011.