Advise for Spanish-English bilingual family adopting a 9-year-old Russian girl

[Blume, Maria]

Thank you for the references. These parents have already adopted another Russian girl and she is doing great, now speaking both English and Spanish, but she was adopted when she was only 18 months old, so the 9 year-old will be a greater challenge no-doubt. María
María Blume
Assistant Professor
Department of Languages and Linguistics
Liberal Arts Building, Room 119
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968
mblume at utep.edu
915-747-6320

Director of the UTEP Language Acquisition and Linguistics Research Lab
Liberal Arts Building, Room 111
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968
915-747-7024



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Subject: Re: Advise for Spanish-English bilingual family adopting a 9-year-old Russian girl

You didn't say how much research the prospective parents of the 9-year-old Russian child have done on the daunting challenges facing international adoptees and their adoptive parents.  If the prospective parents have not done much research, here are some places they might start:
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/childemotion/WIAP.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21413938
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8509409

At BUCLD 37 on 4 November 2012 , Audrey Delcenserie & Fred Genesee presented stunning data documenting the long-lasting language delays in Chinese children adopted between the ages of 7 and 24 months and reared in a monolingual French-speaking environment.

Inge-Marie Eigsti has also worked extensively on the language outcomes of internationally adopted children, and here is a link to one of her and her colleagues' papers:
http://eigsti.psy.uconn.edu/Eigsti_IntAdop_2011.pdf

Any of these individuals would have a great deal to contribute to anyone considering adoption.

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