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Disabilities, Risks, Disorders

Specific disorders, disabilities, and health risks of concern to parents. Factsheets, definitions, and descriptions. Includes ADD/ADHD, attachment, clinical issues, the effects of prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol, HIV/AIDS, and others.

ADD/ADHD - Attention Deficit Disorders

Information and resources pertaining to Attention Deficit Disorders for current and future adoptive parents.

Attachment & Bonding

Sources of information, guidance, and treatment professionals for attachment and bonding problems, including Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD).

• About Attachment
• Attachment and Bonding Professionals
• Attachment Groups & Organizations

HIV/AIDS: The Forgotten Children

Adopting HIV and drug-addicted children and AIDS orphans. The Children with AIDS Project offers hope of permanent families to HIV/AIDS-affected infants and children.

Prenatal Exposures to Drugs & Alcohol

Information and resources pertaining to emotional, mental, and physical health issues that can arise from prenatal exposures to alcohol, drugs, and other substances.

• Adopting a Substance-Exposed Child

Adoption of Deaf/HOH Children
How the Deaf Adoption News Service got started. The author is deaf and the adoptive parent of two children.

Children's Disabilities and Special Needs
Articles and resources about children with disabilities and special needs, including premature birth; from ComeUnity.

Clinical Issues Among Adoptees
Eleven common issues detected among adoptees who have received psychological treatment are briefly identified and described.

Disabilities Definitions
From the National Adoption Center, definitions of risk factors and physical, emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities.

Sensory Integration Disorder
Characterized by distractibility and "accident prone-ness," parents of post-institutionalized children need to be aware of this disorder.

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