2026 Education and FASD International Conference • Oct 23, 2026

The Animation Curriculum: Acceptability, Feasibility and Engagement of a Specifically Designed FASD Educational Intervention in Two Mainstream Classroom Settings

10:30AM to 11:10AM PDT / 40min

This presentation provides an overview of a feasibility study assessing the acceptability, logistical implications of and student engagement with The Animation Curriculum, a novel educational intervention which uses arts practices to deliver curricular content to students aged 7 to 10 years. The Animation Curriculum is a seven module, cross curricular programme acting as a mode of delivery through which a whole class of students completes a series of tasks and actions producing a series of outputs. This approach is multi-sensory, tactile and multimodal with a strengths based approach for those with FASD. Through this feasibility study, educators at schools in North East England and British Columbia, Canada (supported by POPFASD) identify topics of learning to be delivered to the class before completing training in The Animation Curriculum delivery and working closely with researchers to produce detailed delivery documentation to support the specific needs of their class population in line with the chosen topic of learning.

A mixed method approach collected both quantitative and qualitative data showing promising results, with students with FASD scoring 0.42 points (of 28 total) lower on the Engagement Scale (Carpenter et al, 2015. ) than the class as a whole across each module. Interviews with teachers were carried out and thematic analysis completed using NViVo with teachers stating, "this is up there with the most engaging thing these kids have had", "they learned so much more than I was expecting", "I was quite worried about doing it right but once we started the students just got on with it" and "they worked the entire session, which is so unlike them".

The presentation concludes that this approach could be highly valuable for this population, and ends with an open discussion around our plans for Phase 2 as we aim to expand across more school districts and more countries to scale testing.