Adopting and advocating for the special needs child
Subtitle: a guide for parents and professionals
By: L. Anne Babb and Rita Laws ; foreword by Dorothy and Robert DeBolt.
Contributors: Laws, Rita, 1956-
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Special needs adoption -- United States.; Older child adoption -- United States.; Children with disabilities -- United States.; Adopted children -- United States -- Family relationships.; Adoptive parents -- Services for -- United States.; Adoption agencies -- United States.
Description: Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child bridges the gap between the desire to help a waiting child and the reality of America's special needs adoption system. It is designed to be used by adoption professionals and adoptive parents, to help them get started, keep going, and locate whatever additional information and support they need.

The authors are adoption professionals, long-time support volunteers, child advocates, and mothers of a total of 23 children, 14 of them adopted children with special needs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-245) and index.