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Tackling Tricky Assignments
Understanding the learning goals and specific challenges of common tricky assignments will help parents and children alike find the best solutions.
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8 Great Reasons to Adopt Now
Distribute this handout and spread the word: Giving your heart to a child is joyful and rewarding.
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Updated for 2007:
30 Ways to Celebrate Adoption
Expand awareness through these actions, one idea for every day
of November's National Adoption Awareness Month.
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Talking With Your 9-12 Year Old About Adoption
This is the time to establish your role as advocate and coach.
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Do We Need a Therapist?
How to decide — and how to find one.
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Explaining Adoption to Classmates
Distribute this handout to other parents at your child's school, or send it home with his classmates after an adoption presentation.
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Travel Medicine collection
Evaluating a referral, pre-adoption preparation, post-adoption checkups, and more.
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Positive
Adoption Language
The way we talk—and the words we choose—say a lot about
what we think and value.
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"Dear
Teacher"
Even a teacher sensitive to adoption may benefit from having words
to say. Here is a sample letter to help you compose your own.
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"Adopt-A" Programs by Amy Klatzkin
and Cathy Breen
Excellent sample letters any parent can use: Amy Klatzkin's letter
urging her local zoo to drop the "Adopt A" slogan from the
title of its animal sponsorship program, and Cathy Breen's letter
explaining her objection to the local library's use of "Adopt
A" language.
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Medical Q&A by Deborah Borchers, MD
Post-Adoption checkups: Which tests should our newly adopted child
have, now that she's home?
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How to be an Adoption Advocate by Katherine
Mikkelson
Road-tested tips for those who want to educate and enlighten others
about the facts of adoption.
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A Memo to My Fellow Teachers by Leonlida DiTomasso
Advice by a teacher and adoptive mom about how to create an adoption-friendly
classroom.
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Talking to Your 6-to-8 Year Old About Adoption
by Susan Saidman
Tips for keeping adoption conversations going during the early elementary
years.
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Now available in Spanish!
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Talking to Your 3-to-5-Year-Old About Adoption
by Susan Saidman
Practical suggestions for beginning the adoption conversation with
pre-schoolers. Makes an excellent handout.
Includes sample conversations, suggested reading list.
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The Truth About Domestic Adoption: by Eliza
Newlin Carney.
Misconceptions about domestic adoption abound. The author confronts
the myth that domestic adoption is rare, expensive, and risky with
her own experience and the facts. Includes statistics about the cost
and timing of domestic and international adoption.
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"Ten Tips for Adoption Travel" by Carrie Howard
Whether in the US or abroad, almost all adoptive parents travel to
a distant city to meet their new child. Here are a collection of ideas
and suggestions, some surprising, all wise, to help parents make the
most of this defining event in a family's life.
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"How I Explained Adoption to the First Grade"
by Amy Klatzkin
Using a favorite doll and a logic children can follow, here's a how
one mother enlightened her daughter's curious class. Includes a list
of useful resources about adoption and school and tips for talking
about adoption in the classroom.
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Adoption in the Classroom, a teacher handout
A two-page tear-out-and-save guide for teachers on adoption in the
classroom. Includes a resource guide for parents and recommended books
for the school library.
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Accurate Adoption Language by Mike Feazal
Through their word choices, even the well-meaning may inadvertently
convey that adoptive families are somehow less genuine and permanent
than other families. Here are language guidelines to send to your
local newspaper editor or to family and friends who might benefit.
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How to Lobby Your Employer for Adoption Benefits
by Elizabeth Mair
For working parents, the need to take time off without pay may put
adoption beyond their financial means. Here's a road map, including
a sample letter, for approaching your employer to request adoption
benefits.
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The Adoption Tax Credit: a Q&A
by Mark McDermott JD
Updated For 2008! A look at the most common questions regarding the adoption expense tax credit, including its provisions for international and domestic adoption. Useful for both you and your accountant.
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Health Insurance for Adopted Kids It's the Law
by Mark McDermott JD
As a result of Federal and state legislation, discrimination by health
insurance carriers against adopted children is prohibited in most
situations. Here's a handout for parents--and their insurance companies.
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Readoption Explained by Peter Weirnicki JD
What is readoption? How does it relate to citizenship and why should
new international adoptive parents consider it, regardless of the
laws in their state?
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Lives in the Balance - Why Bone Marrow Registries
are Critical to Adoptive Families by Martha Osborne
For 30,000 people in the U.S. each year diagnosed with disorders such
as leukemia, a bone marrow transplant could mean the difference between
life and death. For adoptees who don't know their birthfamilies and
have little chance of locating them, finding a donor becomes a challenge.
Here's what you need to know.
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Birthfather Registries: What They Are, How They
Help Birthfathers and Prospective Adoptive Families Alike by Mary
Beck, JD
Over the past 10 years, many states have enacted birthfather registry
laws requiring a would-be father to notify the registry, a state-maintained
database, of his name and address and the names of the birthmother
and child, if already born.
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