Adoptive parents may have the following wrong assumptions about internationally adopted children
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Wrong!
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All what an adopted child needs is love and good nutrition.
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In reality these are necessary, but at times insufficient remedies for your child's educational needs.
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Wrong!
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The younger the child, the lesser is the chance that I'll encounter problems in his/her upbringing.
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In reality the very fact of an adoption at a young age (before 2) is no guarantee for problem-free school years.
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Wrong!
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If a child is healthy, there should be no special problems for him/her in the school too.
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In reality general health is needed, but not sufficient: specific learning disabilities or school-related behavior issues can be found in a perfectly healthy child.
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Wrong!
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Children will learn the new language very quickly; it will come to them without any additional efforts on parent's part.
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In reality international adoptees may master conversational English in a matter of several months, but it may not prevent them from having significant problems with cognitive/academic language.
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Wrong!
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The longer the child was in an institution before the adoption, the higher is the risk factor, and the more severe are the consequences.
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In reality this is a long-lived erroneous belief. In fact, life before institution may be more damaging and detrimental than life in an orphanage where a minimum care was provided.
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