What are special need adoptions? Who should consider this option? Our guests to talk about special need adoptions are Susan Watson, Director at Spence-Chapin Adoption Services in New York City; Martha Osborne, Exec. Director of Rainbow Kids, an internet based photolisting of children with special needs awaiting adoption and a great source of information on special needs adoptions; and Nancy Fox, Director of Americans for International Aid & Adoption, with over 30 years of experience in finding families for kids from Bulgaria, Hungary, India, Korea, Russia, and El Salvador, with a special emphasis in special needs adoptions.
Highlights of the show (click to expand)
- What are special needs adoptions?
- Are there different levels of special needs?
- Is it possible to adopt a child with mild or medically correctable special needs?
- Are their children with mild or moderate special needs available to adopt in the United States domestically?
- How do you find a newborn American baby with special needs to adopt?
- What are the differences between domestic special needs adoptions and international special needs adoptions or adopting a child with medical needs?
- Are foster care adoptions considered special needs adoptions?
- How to find a child to adopt from US foster care?
- How can you get educated on the different types of special needs or handicapping conditions that a child may have?
- What resources are available for learning about special needs and handicapping conditions.
- Cleft lip/palate, albinism, club foot, limb difference
- More boys are available for adoption than girls.
- How much health information will you get on a child you are considering adopting?
- How much information will you get on the severity of the special need?
- Is there a shorter wait to adopt a child with special needs?
- Does it cost less to adopt a child with special needs?
- Is it faster to adopt a child with special needs?
- Does your homestudy (home study) have to be different when adopting a child with special needs?
- What country has children with special needs available for adoption?
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