Books
Adame, Laura and Bill Trickey. Thinking about Adopting or Foster Parenting Special Needs Children. Helps prospective adopters and foster parents evaluate their ability to successfully add a child with special needs to their family. AFABC library.
Anderson, Chitwood, Hayden, Navigating the Special Educational Maze.
Babb, L. Anne and Rita Laws. Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child: a Guide for Parents and Professionals. Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Gervey, 1997.
Bailey, Carole Sue and Kathy Dolby, eds. Canadian Dictionary of ASL. University of Alberta Press, www.uap.ualberta.ca. 2002. For anyone adopting deaf or hard of hearing kids, a dictionary of American Sign Language with over 8700 signs, many unique to Canada.
Cowan, Lissa and Jennifer Lee. Living with Prenatal Drug Exposure: A Guide for Parents. 2003. Society of Special Needs Adoptive Parents (SNAP), www.snap.bc.ca, and Ben Simon Press. For parents and professionals. Introduces caregivers to the challenges of caring for a child prenatally exposed to drugs.
Fahlberg, Vera. A Child's Journey Through Placement. Pediatrician demonstrates how breaks in attachment affect a child's behaviour, intellectual development, and emotional well-being.
Glatz, Janet. Fostering or Adopting the Troubled Child. Contains information on identifying common disorders and medications, and learning interventions to help parents successfully nurture displaced children. AFABC library.
Graefe, Sara, ed. Adoption Piece by Piece: Lifelong Issues, Special Needs, A Toolkit for Parents (3 volumes). 2003. Society of Special Needs Adoptive Parents (SNAP), www.snap.bc.ca, and Ben Simon Press. Collection of articles from experienced parents and professionals on adoption topics.
Gray, Steven G. The Maltreated Child: Finding What Lurks Beneath. Living Water Press, 2004. A pediatric neuropsychologist focuses on adoptive and foster kids with childhood disorders.
Jewett, Claudia. Adopting The Older Child. By a family counsellor and adoptive parent. Provides tools for dealing with separation and grief, family adjustment, and problem behaviours.
Jewett, Claudia. Helping Children Cope With Separation and Loss. Techniques to help children resolve their grief over life events; stages of mourning.
Keck, Gregory, and Regina Kupecky. Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-needs Kids: a Guide for Parents and Professionals. Colorado Springs, Col.: Pinon, 1995. Who the challenged children are, why they hurt, where the system lets them down, and what caring adults (in parenting and professional roles) can do to help.
Keck, Gregory, and Regina Kupecky. Parenting the Hurt Child. Piņon Press, Colorado Springs CO, 2002. With informed parenting and appropriate therapy, your adopted child can heal and grow.
McNamara, Joan and McNamara, Bernard. Adoption and the Sexually Abused Child. Ossington NY: Family Resources, 1990.
Peck, Cynthia. Adoption Today: Options and Outcomes. 67 families tell how they fared after adopting 42 international and 52 domestic children: special needs; medical conditions; emotional problems; learning disabilities. R&W Publications, Box 577, Hackettstown NJ 07840, 908-637-8828.
Smart, Jennifer. Adoptive Parents' Guide to Infants and Toddlers. Medical and developmental issues affecting adopted children up to two years old. Post-adoption Helper, www.familyhelper.net/pa/phinf.html.
Ziegler, Dave. Raising Children who Refuse to be Raised: Parenting Skills and Therapy Interventions for the Most Difficult Children. Jasper OR: Acacia Press, 2000.
