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  Adoptive Parents' Guide to
The Special Needs Child
By Robin Hilborn

First edition, 2003
$12 / ISBN 0-9687944-9-1

CONTENTS

  SPECIAL NEEDS ADOPTION
Raising our children of many hurts
Accepting your child's special needs
Definitions: A-Z of special needs adoption

ATTACHMENT DISORDER
Attachment: a core issue in adoption
Behaviour of the unattached child
Please, I'm not a bad parent (letter to the teacher)
Build connections in your relationship
Resources for Attachment

ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
ADHD treatments can work
Criteria for diagnosing ADHD
ADHD and the school system
Managing your ADHD child in school
Resources for ADHD

  FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME
Recognize FAS, and take action
Learning about FAS: a light goes on
Fantastic Antone Succeeds: book review
Resources for FAS

INSTITUTIONAL CARE
Post-institutionalized children
Many Romanian orphans do well
Institutional life harms children
Resources for Institutional Care

LEARNING DISABILITIES
LD: What are learning disabilities?
Coping with your child's disability
Be an advocate for your child in school
Resources for LD

SENSORY INTEGRATION DYSFUNCTION
SID: When the senses don't make sense
Your child's sensory problems
Resources for SID

How to order Adoptive Parents' Guide to the Special Needs Child

If you're struggling to understand your adopted child's behaviour, the answer may be here. Robin Hilborn summarizes the major disorders and syndromes you may see in your adopted child. Read about attachment disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, fetal alcohol syndrome, effects of institutional care, learning disabilities and sensory integration dysfunction. For each one, he gives articles on symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, and adds a page of resources you can call on. (For more, see the excerpt below.)

To order a copy, fill in this form and send, with your cheque, to: 220 Summerhill Rd., Southampton, Ont. N0H 2L0 Canada.

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Robin Hilborn is editor and publisher of the Post-adoption Helper series.

Special Needs Child is also available (No. 13) at a discount ($9) when you order four or more titles from the Family Helper series. See the form at Family Helper, and choose the editions you'd like to order.

EXCERPT

From the introduction to Adoptive Parents' Guide to the Special Needs Child
By Robin Hilborn

When needs are special ...

Many of our adopted children come to us with some kind of special need. This may be a physical or mental disability, or one of the so-called "invisible disabilities". They're "invisible" because there are no obvious external clues to an internal problem ... perhaps some scrambled wiring in the central nervous system which manifests itself as poor memory, inattentiveness or bad handwriting.

In this edition of Post-adoption Helper the spotlight falls on six major "special needs" which adoptive parents may encounter in their children: attachment disorder, attention deficit disorder, fetal alcohol syndrome, institutionalization, learning disabilities and sensory integration dysfunction.

For each disorder I've provided background articles covering things like symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, and I conclude with a page of resources you can call on for that disorder -- web sites, articles, books, therapists and organizations.

I've included a two-page glossary. It's an A-Z of disorders and syndromes: 18 definitions from Abuse to Tourette Syndrome.

Parenting adopted children with special needs can be a demanding and stressful undertaking. Love alone isn't enough -- you'll also need special parenting strategies and outside help.

I hope the information in this edition will help you find your way.

How to order Adoptive Parents' Guide to the Special Needs Child

Awards

 In 1995 Adoption Helper received an Ontario Adoption Award from the Adoption Council of Ontario, "in recognition of its outstanding contribution to the adoption community of Ontario."

In 1997 Jennifer Smart, editor of Post-adoption Helper, received an Ontario Adoption Award from the Adoption Council of Ontario for her work on behalf of adoption causes.

In 2001 Robin Hilborn received an Adoption Activist Award from the North American Council on Adoptable Children for "dedicated work in making adoption information more accessible and providing materials for post-adoptive support".

Robin Hilborn edits and publishes Adoption Helper and Post-adoption Helper.

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