Speech-Language Development in Children Adopted from China

Karen E. Pollock, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

University of Alberta

Other Research on Language and Internationally Adopted Children

Speech and Language Development in Children Adopted from Haiti (Chattaway, Zmijewski, & Pollock, Universit of Alberta)   NEW!   Volunteers Needed

http://www.rehabmed.ualberta.ca/spa/phonology/haiti.htm

Language development in children adopted from Eastern Europe (Dr. Sharon Glennen, Towson University) – contains guidelines and resources for parents

http://pages.towson.edu/sglennen/index.htm

Follow Up Medical Study of 263 Chinese Babies and Children Adopted by American Families (Nancy W. Hendrie, M.D., Pediatric Consultant, Sharing in Adoption, Falmouth, Maine)

http://www.fccne.org/news/hendrie.html

Harvard University Study of Language Development in Internationally Adopted Children (Dr. Jesse Snedeker)

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~lds/adoption/default.htm

List of researchers conducting research in various aspects of international adoption, maintained by the Association for Research in International Adoption (ARIA)

http://www.adoption-research.org/

List of Canadian adoption research projects (completed reports & works in progress or in press)

http://www.adoption.ca/research_projects.htm

List of Canadian adoption researchers

http://www.adoption.ca/researchers_list.htm

University of Minnesota International Adoption Project - includes results of the 2001 survey as well as descriptions of new and ongoing projects (including one focusing on early communication skills)

http://education.umn.edu/icd/iap/