<div class="gmail_quote"><font style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The post </font><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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:</font><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/childemotion/WIAP.html" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204)">http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/childemotion/WIAP.html</a><br>
</font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21413938" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204)">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21413938</a><br>
</font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8509409" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204)">http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8509409</a><br>
</font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
</font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">At BUCLD 37 on 4 November 2012 , Audrey Delcenserie & Fred Genesee<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:16px"> 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.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:16px"><br>
</span></font></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:16px">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:</span></font></font></div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:16px"><a href="http://eigsti.psy.uconn.edu/Eigsti_IntAdop_2011.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204)">http://eigsti.psy.uconn.edu/Eigsti_IntAdop_2011.pdf</a></span><br>
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</span></font></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:16px">Any of these individuals would have a great deal to contribute to anyone considering adoption.</span></font></font></div>
</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Virginia Valian<br>Distinguished Professor<br>Department of Psychology, Hunter College<br>PhD Programs in Linguistics, Psychology, and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY Grad Center<br><a href="mailto:vvvstudents@gmail.com">vvvstudents@gmail.com</a><br>

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