special needs adoption
Challenged children's placement
Special needs adoption refers to adopting children who face barriers to placement—those with physical or developmental disabilities, older children, sibling groups who need to stay together, or children with emotional or behavioral challenges from trauma.
The term is administrative rather than clinical, designating categories that qualify for additional support services or subsidies: They pursued special needs adoption after learning about the waiting children in foster care.
- fosterEncourage development of
- waiting childMinor available for adoption
- disabilityImpairment affecting life activities
- orphanChild whose parents died
- traumaLasting psychological wound
attachment · attachment disorder · family · caregiver · developmental · autism · sensory processing · therapy · bonding · placement · caseworker · home study · resilience · wheelchair · nurture · medical · emotional · support
- adoptionbirth parents, birth parent, birth mother, home study
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