Waiting Child Programmes
Adoption From Lithuania - Waiting List Children
Special needs children eligible for adoption shall be children entered into the waiting list of children eligible for adoption for whom at least one of the following is true:
- Children older than 8 years of age, as individual children or with one or more younger siblings;
- A sibling group of at least three who are referred for adoption together;
- Children close to their siblings who do not agree to be adopted or who cannot be adopted together, that require on-going contact via telephone, email, occasional visits;
- Children with serious or incurable medical condition, which is certified by a health certificate issued by a medical institution and a certificate filled in by the child’s guardian.
Adoption from the Philippines- Waiting Child categories
- Older children whose age range is from 9 - 15 years old
- Children belonging to a sibling group of 3 or more
- Children found positive of Hepatitis B or HIV
- Children with minor medical conditions (cleft lip/palate, half or total blindness, hearing impaired, mild cerebral palsy, etc.) developmental delays (language/speech, motor skills, etc.)
Information on children in this programme is sent to accredited bodies (including ICANZ) for the Special Home Finding Programme.
Adoption From India - Special Needs Classification
Category 1: Older children over 5 years/sibling group with older child
Category 2: Low Birth weight - if a child is at this time is severely delayed according to the panel of pediatrician, the child may be listed as “special needs”.
Category 3: Obvious conditions and serious medical conditions, eg Spina bifida, Ichtyosis, Chronic Asthma, Limbs, fingers or toes missing, Hepatitis B, Diabetes, Blood Disorders, Cleft Lip/Palate, Blind or partially blind, Deaf or partically deaf, Thalasemia Major, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Polio, Severe disfiguring birth marks, Indeterminate sex, Colostomy, Pier Robin Syndrome, Neurological disorders, Dwarfism, Hemophilia, Ectodermal displacia, Speech dysfunction, Paralysis, Microcephaly, Chronic Eczema, Burns, Epilepsy, Acute Ricketts, Severe seizure disorders, severe orthopedic conditions etc.
Category 4: Prior traumatic background, disruption, long institutional care, difficult circumstances, psychiatric and mentally challenged parentage.
Waiting Children
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Related resources
Adopting An Older Child – Extract from “Our Own” by Trish Maskew.
The Boy From Baby House 10 is the amazing story about the adoption of a ten and a half year old boy with cerebral palsy from Russia.
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