Adoption of Children with Developmental Disabilities.

Wimmer, Jane S.; Richardson, Sharon

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ERIC Number: EJ418825

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1990

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Adoption of Children with Developmental Disabilities.

Wimmer, Jane S.; Richardson, Sharon

Child Welfare, v69 n6 p563-69 Nov-Dec 1990

United Methodist Family Services of Virginia placed 41 developmentally disabled children in adoptive homes between August 1985 and June 1988. Efforts of the program's caseworkers to find potential adoptive families and obstacles to the placement of the children, are discussed. (BG)

Descriptors: Adoption, Caseworker Approach, Caseworkers, Children, Developmental Disabilities, Foster Children, Foster Family, Placement, Recruitment

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Virginia

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