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    Readiness to Adopt Children with Special Needs: A Self-Survey for Prospective Adoptive Parents
    Readiness to Adopt Children with Special Needs: A Self-Survey for Prospective Adoptive Parents
    Readiness to Adopt Children with Special Needs: A Self-Survey for Prospective Adoptive Parents
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    Readiness to Adopt Children with Special Needs: A Self-Survey for Prospective Adoptive Parents

    By Jane Gilgun

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    This survey is for prospective adoption parents who are considering adopting children children with special needs. Children with special needs have experienced adversities, such as abuse, neglect, and abandonment, or may have neurological, psychological, and behavioral issues that require special care. Your answers will show you where you have strengths as a parent and where you have room for improvement.

    If you have a partner, your partner should fill out his or her own survey, too. The survey is designed for partners to talk to each other about their answers to the survey questions.

    Adoption professionals at the agencies where you are applying to adopt children may talk to you about some of the issues that this survey raises.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJane Gilgun
    Release dateAug 11, 2012
    ISBN9781476431475
    Readiness to Adopt Children with Special Needs: A Self-Survey for Prospective Adoptive Parents
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    Jane Gilgun

    I like to laugh. I like witty people. When I'm not writing, riding my horses, or working in my garden, I'm a professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. I write children's books, poetry, books on children with special needs, and books on many other topics based on research I have done for many years. I also comment on public events. My writings are available on Amazon Kindle, iBooks, smashwords.com, scribd.com, createspace, and many other ebooksellers.

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