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JAMES (4/98), or Jimmy, who is a loving and affectionate, needs kind, patient, nurturing folks to give him the total care he requires. Jimmy has strong bonds with his long-term foster parents, and with his birth mother, father, and siblings. Although Jimmy is non-verbal and wheel-chair bound, he gets excited when he these significant people and smiles and waves his hands in greetings and affection.

Jimmy’s foster mom tells us that he enjoys looking on while his foster sister or someone else creates bubbles with a wand for him or bats balloons around in front of him. One of Jimmy’s favorite pastimes is sitting by a window or door where he can see outside and watch for airplanes. Repetitive kinds of activities readily seem to captivate him, such as opening and closing a door. While Jimmy can stay engaged for extended periods of time swinging a door open and closed, he needs to be supervised. He often gets the door going so fast that it hits the wall behind it. There is evidence at his foster home of many a hole having already been repaired. Despite being essentially wheel-chair bound, Jimmy does enjoy crawling at times.

Jimmy enjoys attending his specialized school program, which provides occupational and physical therapies. He also has occupational and physical therapists that work with him and with his foster parents to teach them to do various therapeutic exercises with him at home.

Jimmy came into foster care in 2002 when his birth family was unable to meet his care needs. He remains in his original foster home with a wonderful older couple who are not a permanent resource.

While Jimmy is small for his age, moving him in and out of his wheel chair to meet his various daily needs requires that he have caregivers with the physical strength to do those routine tasks. Jimmy continues to be fed through a tube, and that will likely be true for the foreseeable future. Speech specialists who have evaluated him that it is unlikely that Jimmy will ever be able to verbalize his thoughts; at times, though, he appears to understand what people say to him.

James’ worker would especially like to choose a family that has experience with children, like James, who have significant developmental delays and who can advocate for the services he will need throughout his lifetime. It would be ideal if such a family would be in proximity to James’ birth family so that he could maintain these very significant relationships.


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