Aug 24 2014 61 mins 2
Internationally adopted children most often do not speak any English when they are adopted. How do they acquire English once home and what can parents do to help. Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national adoption & infertility education and support organization, will interview Dr. Sharon Glennen, Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Audiology, Speech Language Pathology and Deaf Studies at Towson University in Maryland. Dr. Glennen researches how children adopted from abroad acquire English after adoption. Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here: Highlights More Creating a Family resources on international adoption can be found here. Support the show (https://creatingafamily.org/donation/)
