Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

Many families that adopt will instantly love their adopted child as much as they love their birth children. When I was a worker placing children, we often stated that there was a “spark” on the part of the parent. They would meet a child or see a picture of a child and just know that was [...]

Early speech and language leads to the development of our literacy skills—the ability to read and write. In school, children with communication disorders are more likely to struggle with literacy skills. They often perform poorly in school, have reading problems and have difficulty understanding and expressing language.

In practice as a therapist, it is common to [...]

Gordon was 15-years-old when he was arrested for vandalizing several cars parked at a local shopping mall. Gordon had been adopted, internationally, when he was 2 and 1/2 -years-old. He had been difficult from the start. This arrest was one more situation on a very lengthy list of negative behaviors! While at the police station [...]