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Marķa </div><div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Marķa Blume</font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Assistant Professor</span></font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Department of Languages and Linguistics</span></font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Liberal Arts Building, Room 119</span></font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Director of the UTEP Language Acquisition and Linguistics Research Lab</span></font></font></div><div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Liberal Arts Building, Room 111</span></font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">University of Texas at El Paso</span></font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">El Paso, TX 79968</span></font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">915-747-7024</span></div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> "<a href="mailto:vvvstudents@gmail.com">vvvstudents@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:vvvstudents@gmail.com">vvvstudents@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> "<a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday, November 5, 2012 8:46 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "<a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: Advise for Spanish-English bilingual family adopting a 9-year-old Russian girl<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">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:</font><div><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2"><a href="http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/childemotion/WIAP.html">http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/childemotion/WIAP.html</a><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21413938">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21413938</a><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2"><a href="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8509409">http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8509409</a><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial,sans-serif" size="2">At BUCLD 37 on 4 November 2012 , Audrey Delcenserie & Fred Genesee<span style="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><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 16px; "><br></span></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="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><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 16px; "><a href="http://eigsti.psy.uconn.edu/Eigsti_IntAdop_2011.pdf">http://eigsti.psy.uconn.edu/Eigsti_IntAdop_2011.pdf</a></span><br></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 16px; "><br></span></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 16px; ">Any of these individuals would have a great deal to contribute to anyone considering adoption.</span></font></font></div><p></p>
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