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Post-adoption Helping you after you adopt

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DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES Doctors for post-adoption assessments Children from Romanian orphanages FAS: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Attachment Disorder Adoptive Parents' Guide to the Special Needs Child SOCIAL / CULTURAL ISSUES Adoptive Parents' Guide to Infants and Toddlers Adoptive Parents' Guide to Your Preschool Child Adoption Goes to School Teacher's Guide to Adoption -- A Teaching Resource Korea -- Online Adoption Info (Jennifer Smart)	WEB SITES, NEWSLETTERS, BOOKS All adoption web sites Web sites of Canadian support groups Post-adoption Helper magazine Directory of adoption newsletters in Canada Directory of adoption newsletters in the U.S. Adoption books: suggested reading POST-ADOPTION SUPPORT Why you should join an adoption support group Directory of adoption support groups in Canada Adoption Council of Canada Adoption Council of Ontario
MONEY TALK ...  Adoption and Money    Financing an adoption: grants, loans, subsidies; tax credits; government and employer benefits   RAISING INFANTS ...   Adoptive Parents' Guide to Infants and Toddlers      Medical, health and developmental issues affecting infants to two-year-olds PRESCHOOLERS ...   Adoptive Parents' Guide to Your Preschool Child      How preschoolers' behaviour changes; family support; sex education; explaining adoption; self esteem; racism; lifebooks; cultural education SCHOOL ISSUES ...   Adoption Goes to School      Pt. 1: Parent's Guide. Telling the teacher, giving an adoption talk, language development, learning disabilities. Pt. 2: Teacher's Guide. Teaching the teacher all about adoption. SPECIAL NEEDS ...   Adoptive Parents' Guide to the Special Needs Child      All about attachment disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, fetal alcohol syndrome, effects of institutional care, learning disabilities and sensory integration dysfunction. BONDING ...   Attachment and the Adopted Child      Causes and symptoms of poor attachment; how to create a strong bond; strategies for coping with a tough family situation; find a good adoption therapist FAS ...   Fetal Alcohol Syndrome      Strategies and resources for helping the child with FAS. THE ANSWERS ...  Post-adoption Potpourri      In a Q-and-A format, the answers to your questions about tax credits, paid leave, citizenship, subsidies, breastfeeding, sleeping, handling racism, and explaining adoption to your child. ALL RESOURCES ...  The Essential Adoption Resource Book      Resources for 25 topics in adoption: domestic, international, special needs, raising adopted children. Web sites, articles, books, support groups. EXPERTS SPEAK ...  Conference 2002: The Best From Toronto      20 adoption experts speak on every topic ... Mary Hopkins-Best on toddlers; Brenda McCreight on older child adoption; Karen Moore on the willful child ... many more
See what's on the menu! Adoption Resource Central 28 topics ... thousands of resources

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-- a list of Adoption Helper back issues
-- a list of Post-adoption Helper back issues
-- a bit of background on the folks behind this Post-adoption page.