Preparing to Adopt a Child With Special Needs".....

Wisconsin Technical Colleges offer a course entitled "Adopting A Child with Special Needs" that helps prospective adoptive parents prepare for parenting an adopted child.  The class is helpful to all prospective adoptive parents since it looks at common adjustment issues faced by all adoptive families.  The challenges of adopting a foster child with special needs are addressed.  The course is taught by professional adult educators and is available to families in rural and urban areas.

This curriculum helps prospective adoptive parents look at the unique experiences and challenges facing adoptive parents, and develop specialized skills required to successfully parent a child, including a child with special needs.  The curriculum explores the major issues in adoption and helps prepare families for the adoption process.  As parents advance through the training they will form a better concept of their own strengths, needs and challenges, what type of child they can parent, and how current and new resources can support them.  When training concludes, parents should be better prepared to decide whether they could make a lifelong commitment to a child with special needs.

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Last Revised: June 16, 2008