Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

by Rita Laws

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897894898
• ISBN13: 9780897894890
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Written by authors who love children

Love is not all a child needs to make an adoption work, and the authors show us this truth in their vast personal and professional experience in adopting special needs children. Prospective adoptive parents of special needs children, both domestic and international, will greatly benefit from the important information and insights into critical emotional, educational and criminal issues dealt with in this wonderful book. I heartily recommend it to everyone.Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?

A must read for all fost/adopt parents!

Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child is well written, interesting and knows its audience (written in layman's terms). This book should be given to all parents of foster children who are considering adoption.

An excellent guide through the process of adoption.

If you are going to read only one book on adopting children with special needs let this be the one. With their vast personal and professional experience in adopting special needs children, Babb and Law clearly explain the most important information and most critical emotional issues which pre-adoptive parents need to consider. My husband and I have adopted three special needs children. This book helped us understand how to advocate for ourselves as we moved through the process of adoption, how to advocate for the children both before and after the adoption and how to address some of the many complex emotional issues faced by a family which chooses to care for and love special needs children. My hearfelt thanks go out to Rita Law and Anne Babb for this wonderful gift of book.

Essential Tool for Special Needs Adoption

This book should be required reading for everyone considering "Special Needs" adoption. I recommend the book be read before you start the process. It's a wealth of current information. This book is written so well that you will enjoy reading it.

Valuable,comprehensive tool for advocates of Special Needs!!

I have read many books geared toward addressing the issues of Special Needs Children. & lt;BR & gt;This book far surpasses any other book I've read on the subject. & lt;BR & gt;I would recommend it to anyone interested in advocating for children. & lt;BR & gt;It is a valuable and comprehensive tool for parents and professionals dealing with Special Needs.