DISCLAIMER: Gladney does not recommend any of the professional resources; however, referral lists are provided by Gladney Family Association families who have used the services of these professionals.
On this page you will find resources relating to international adoption:
ADHD
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Link to ADHD Resources
Location: Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder
Synopsis: Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) is a national non-profit organization founded in 1987 in response to the frustration and sense of isolation experienced by parents and their children with AD/HD.
Link to ADHD Resources
Location: www.adhd.com
Synopsis: This web site provides pointers on getting help for your child with ADHD. It gives great resources such as your rights, how to be a child's advocate, and educational resources.
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Attachment
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Books Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title & Author: Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents, by Deborah Gray
Synopsis: Many adopted children come to their families at an older age. Their adoptive parents need help in understanding how prior experiences and changes in caregivers, culture, language, and more can create challenges for children trying to form attachments in their new families. This book provides advice about obtaining a proper diagnosis, building a caring professional team, using various approaches to parenting and teaching, and finding a therapist who is adequately informed, prepared, and experienced.
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Cultures
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Books Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title & Author: Dim Sum, Bagel and Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families, by Myra Alperson
Synopsis: How many times do you celebrate the New Year at home? Just once? If your family is Jewish, Chinese, and a few other things besides, you might celebrate twice or even three times a year! As the rate of cross-cultural adoption grows in the United States, new traditions are emerging. This book offers personal as well as professional insights into such topics as combining cultures, confronting prejudice, developing role models, and locating multicultural resources.
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Depression
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Articles Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title: After Placement
Location: Gladney E-News
Synopsis: I know we all have heard about Post Partum Depression, but what about Post Placement Depression? Post Placement Depression is common for families to experience after placement.
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Languages
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Languages Resource
Location: www.123language.com
Synopsis: This site is an online store that specializes in language products, such as translators.
Languages Resource
Location: www.allvirtualware.com
Synopsis: This site sells software for translating documents into different languages. They have many different languages, but have specially advertised Russian and Ukrainian software. Some of these products are downloadable upon payment.
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Local Resource Information
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Subject: Local Medical Resources
Description: Gladney Family Association Referrals
Synopsis: Gladney Family Association provides names of local professional resources for specific medical referrals. Please send an email to Gladney Family Association Referral requesting a referral in your area.
Subject: Local Educational Resources
Description: Gladney Family Association Referrals
Synopsis: Gladney Family Association provide names of local professional resources for specific educational referrals such as day cares, schools, tutors, SAT coaching. Please send an email to Gladney Family Association Referral requesting a referral in your area.
Subject: Local Psychological/Counseling Resources
Description: Gladney Family Association Referrals
Synopsis: Gladney Family Association provide names of local professional resources for psychological/counseling referrals. Please send an email to Gladney Family Association Referral requesting a referral in your area.
Subject: Other Referral Services
Description: Gladney Family Association Referrals
Synopsis: Gladney Family Association provide names of local services such as babysitters. Please send an email to Gladney Family Association Referral requesting a referral in your area.
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Medical Issues
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Articles Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title: The Second Glance at Institutional Autism in Internationally Adopted Children
Location: International Adoption Articles Directory
Synopsis: In short, there is a common "package" of symptoms associated with all developmental disabilities, but it is significantly “amplified” in post-institutional adoptees. As was already pointed out, “learned” autism may have many symptoms in common with other developmental disabilities and may be similar to organic-based autism.
Medical Resource
Location: Children's Medical Center
Description: The International Adoption Medicine program at Children's Medical Center offers comprehensive medical evaluations and information for families, and consultations for the doctors who care for them.
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Children's Medical Center
Articles Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title: Medical Issues in Internationally Adopted Children
Location: adoption.com
Synopsis: This page, a part of adoption.com, is a nice general overview of potential medical problems faced by children adopted internationally. It discusses, briefly, HIV/Hepatitis, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder, and Sensory Integration Disorder. It talks about general signs that parents could look for before placement of the child, as well as after. This page is very upfront without trying to scare readers.
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Parenting
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Link to Parenting Resources
Location: The Not So Perfect Parent
Synopsis: The pursuit of perfection only leads to frustration and serves as a wedge between you and your children. That said, we snuggle up to the concept of being a Not-so-Perfect parent and doing the best we can. Allow this website to be the forum through which we join together to share thoughts, stories, insights, advice and even frustrations.
Articles Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title: Raising Confident Sons Who Have Respect for Others
Location: News Articles
Author Bio: Peggy Drexler, Ph.D., a research psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, is the author of “Raising Boys Without Men” (Rodale, 2005) and a former gender scholar at Stanford University. For more information visit www.peggydrexler.com.
Articles Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Subject: Parenting
Title: Back to School: Tips for School Success
Location: Gladney's Bright Futures Newsletter
Synopsis: What can you do to ease your child's school days? How can you empower your child and his teacher? Do you tell the teacher that he is adopted? How do you handle adoption-related assignments? Should you help his teacher become more adoption friendly?
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Resources
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Books Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title & Author: Risk and Promise: A Handbook for Parents Adopting a Child from Overseas,, by (Drs.) IJ Chasnoff, LD Schwartz, CL Pratt, GJ Neuberger
Synopsis: is an incredibly quick read which does a marvelous job of providing a succinct and comprehensive overview of the risk factors facing an internationally adopted child. Designed for prospective adoptive parents, the goal of the handbook is to make parents aware of challenges their child may face and to assist them in identifying those issues, thereby making decisions as to whether a referred child is the best fit for their family and intervening as needed to help their child once they arrive home. Practical worksheets and tips are given to assist families through the travel, referral, and post placement processes. In addition to giving practical information about medical issues, such as hepatitis, TB, and prenatal health of the child and birth mother, the authors also succinctly describe several of the other common risk factors many internationally adopted children experience, namely attachment issues, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, ADHD, and sensory integration dysfunction. I appreciate their clear descriptions which cover the salient points of all these issues, and I highly recommend this book to adoptive parents at all phases of the process.
Books Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title & Author: Adoption in Schools: Resources for Parents and Teachers, by Lansing Wood and Nancy Ng
Synopsis: From tots to teens, school can often be a challenge for the adopted child. Sometimes it's "simply" a matter of educating the educators about adoption, diversity, inclusion, language, and special educational needs. Sometimes you need to go further and tackle deeply-held traditional practices and policies. Either way, this book will help you and your child's teachers make school a better place for your adopted child.
Books Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title & Author: One Wonderful You, by Francie Portnoy
Synopsis: For an adopted child, forming a healthy identity requires incorporating two family legacies into his or her self-definition. ONE WONDERFUL YOU shows how the child is a blend of two families: the physical traits and many of the personality traits that come from the birth family plus the nurturing contributions from the adoptive family, combining to form a complete person. This is a positive, feel-good book for adopted children.
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Sensory Integration
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Sensory Integration Resources
Location: www.sinetwork.org
Synopsis: This site is full of general information about Sensory Process Disorder (SPD), also know as sensory integration disorder. It gives a clear definition of what exactly SPD is and discusses some of the subtypes of the disorder. The site gives signs of the major subtypes for parents to use as a guide. It also answers some basic questions about how to get an assessment for a child who may have SPD and what type of Occupational Therapy is needed for treatment. Areas of the site are still being added to, but it is very user friendly. It does list some specialists from different states that work with SPD children. The lists are small mainly because the specialist has to add themselves, but it is a place to start. It also lists some support groups around the US for parents.
Sensory Integration Resources
Location: www.out-of-sync-child.com
Synopsis: This site is to promote the book The Out of Sync Child. It shares why the author, Carol Stock Kranowitz, decided to write a book on this subject. It does list other possible resources, such as magazines. There is a page about the Balzer-Martin Preschool Screening Program. Overall there is very little information to pull from this website. It is however very user friendly, but the small type is hard to read after a while.
Sensory Integration Resources
Location: www.sensoryresources.com
Synopsis: This is an online store that specializes in resources, i.e. books, tapes and videos, about sensory integration and processing problems. It also has a list of workshops that are coming up on different sensory topics.
Sensory Integration Resources
Location: www.sensorytools.net
Synopsis: This is a product website. It is selling activity books that specialize in working with young sensory disorder children. The books seem appropriate for children from 2 years to 6 years in age. The books have rhymes and songs with actions to build motor skills.
Sensory Integration Resources
Location: www.southpawenterprises.com
Synopsis: This website is an online catalogue of toys and other products for children with Sensory Integration Dysfunction.
Sensory Integration Resources
Location: www.theraproducts.com
Synopsis: This website is an online catalogue of toys and other products for children with developmental problems including Sensory Integration Dysfunction. Not all products have pictures to see what they look like.
Sensory Integration Resources
Location: www.tfhusa.com
Synopsis: This website is an online catalogue of toys and other products for children with Sensory Integration Dysfunction. There are also some articles about kids that have used their products and that helped them.
Sensory Integration Resources
Location: www.sensorycomfort.com
Synopsis: This website sells products designed for people with sensory integration dysfunction. They have products such as socks with no toe-seam and headphones that reduce outside noise.
Articles Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title: The Little Girl Who Loved to Swing
Location: library.adoption.com
Synopsis: This article is written by a mother of a child with Sensory Integration disorder (SI). It is a nice article that takes parents through what a mother felt and how she dealt with SI in her daughter. This article explains what SI is in layman's terms, so that everyone can understand what is going on in their child. It discusses the signs, the feelings her daughter was having, the assessment that needs to be done and the treatment for SI. Being part of adoption.com, it is very user friendly. It is a little longer then most other articles, but easy to read.
Articles Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title: Short Articles Written by Parents
Location: www.comeunity.com
Synopsis: This website has a series of short articles written by parents with children who have sensory integration problems. They give some good practical suggestions for oral and tactile defensiveness problems. There is also a short interview with Carol Kranowitz, the author of "The Out-of-Sync Child". The articles are listed on this website with a sentence summary. Just click on what interest you and find the full article. Most are a page or less.
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Transracial Adoption
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Books Reviewed/Recommended by Gladney Staff & Clients
Title & Author: Inside Transracial Adoption, by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall
Synopsis: The authors provide reactive, confident, pro-active, and provocative guidance both for prospective parents who are considering transracial adoption for the first time and also for those who are experienced veterans. This book offers direction for building close, loving, and very real families consisting of individuals who are proud and culturally competent members of differing races.
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This page last updated on 11/25/2008
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