View: Wednesday's Child video for Ebony

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Legally free, EBONY (11/97), who has a good sense of humor, can be a charming little girl, especially when the challenges of her developmental disabilities are being managed. Some of her favorite pastimes are playing basketball and tetherball, riding a scooter, and sledding. She also enjoys playing games and looking through picture books. She is very interested these days in books about animals. And with attentive supervision and guidance, she is learning how to interact appropriately with family pets. Ebony loves to play in water with an attentive adult nearby to supervise. She also likes attending church.

At eight weeks old, Ebony was placed in a foster/adoptive family. She came back into foster care about a year ago, when her foster/adopt parents felt they could not meet her special needs.

Ebony’s current intervention program includes medication therapy, which uses different medications to lessen her attention difficulties and high energy, as well as individual counseling with a mental health therapist using behavioral tools. Because of Ebony’s developmental disabilities, determining how to best meet her behavioral is on going.

Ebony attends school in a self-contained classroom with specialized individual and small group instruction to increase her receptive and expressive language skills. The program also includes integration of her extracurricular and other non-academic activities.

On the home front, Ebony needs kind, patient, committed care provider(s) who have experience with the special needs of children who have significant developmental disabilities. Because she requires wrap-around services, her adoptive parent(s) will need to have a strong support system of family and friends (to help provide some respite care) and community resources that include, special educational, developmental, and mental health services. It will be essential, too, for Ebony to have a structured environment with very consistent daily routines, a high level of parental supervision, concrete rules and limits, and consequences for non compliance. Ebony will do best as an only child.


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