Personal experience when schools focus on their needs not the students. I have special needs children and many times the school personnel have told me they know better than me. Dealing with schools can be very difficult at times. Many school professionals have different agendas especially when it is dealing with parents. As parents, we…
When parents adopt internationally many times the country has already identified if the child has special needs or not. However, the child can also have secondary special needs that does not appear right away but sometimes later. Some of the reasons are poverty, orphanages, lack of available health care, and other situations. Research from Pinderhuges,…
Helping school systems better understand your child’s adoption experience in their home country prior to bringing them home is helpful. Set up a meeting with the school system to explain what the child has experienced and what you think is going to be needed is important. Educators do not receive any classes in college on…
