Category: Adoption
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International Adoption
When parents adopt internationally many times the country has already identified if the child has special needs or not. However, the child can also have secondary special needs that does not appear right away but sometimes later. Some of the reasons are poverty, orphanages, lack of available health care, and other situations. Research from Pinderhuges,…
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Helping the schools better understand adoptive children
Helping school systems better understand your child’s adoption experience in their home country prior to bringing them home is helpful. Set up a meeting with the school system to explain what the child has experienced and what you think is going to be needed is important. Educators do not receive any classes in college on…
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NaviParent: Indiscriminate Friendliness in Adoption
This week’s blog will focus on how to talk to teachers about adoption. We have two international adoption boys. We adopted them when they were 23 months and 2 ½ years old. They are now 9 and 4 years of age. So, this year was the first year they were both in school. They were…