| Description |
xiv, 253 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-245) and index. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child bridges the gap between the desire to help a waiting child and the reality of America's special needs adoption system. It is designed to be used by adoption professionals and adoptive parents, to help them get started, keep going, and locate whatever additional information and support they need. The authors are adoption professionals, long-time support volunteers, child advocates, and mothers of a total of 23 children, 14 of them adopted children with special needs. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Dorothy DeBolt and Robert DeBolt -- Ch. 1. Special Needs Adoption in the United States -- Ch. 2. Choosing the Type of Child You Will Adopt -- Ch. 3. Finding a Child -- Ch. 4. Preparing for Parenthood -- Ch. 5. Early Placement: What Parents Experience -- Ch. 6. Early Placement: What Children Experience -- Ch. 7. Living with Special Needs -- Ch. 8. Finances -- Ch. 9. Working with Educators and Schools -- Ch. 10. Transracial Adoption -- Ch. 11. International Special Needs Adoption -- Ch. 12. When Things Go Wrong -- Ch. 13. Special Needs, Special Situations. |
| Subject |
Special needs adoption -- United States.
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Older child adoption -- United States.
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Children with disabilities -- United States.
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Adopted children -- Family relationships -- United States.
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Adoptive parents -- Services for -- United States.
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Adoption agencies -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Laws, Rita, 1956-
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| ISBN |
0897894898 alkaline paper |
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9780897894890 alkaline paper |
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