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International Adoption Health Resource Center
The Washington metropolitan area has undergone a marked influx of children adopted primarily from orphanages from the countries of the former Eastern Block. Since 1990, the Center for Child & Human Development at Georgetown University has delivered services especially designed to meet the needs of adoptive parents and their children from abroad.
The International Adoption Health Resource Center (IAHRC) is one of the few clinics in the United States specializing in the evaluation of medical, developmental, and nutritional problems among internationally adopted children. The clinic offers preadoption counseling for prospective adoptive parents, as well as comprehensive medical, nutritional, and developmental screening, evaluation, and intervention strategies for these children after their arrival to the United States. Several staff members are fluent in eastern European languages and interpreters are readily available.
The staff works closely with primary care pediatricians and on going follow-up is provided. Referrals to subspecialists are available through the Georgetown University Children's Medical Center. Subspecialists include experienced professionals from a wide range of disciplines, such as:
- Audiology
- Communications Disorders
- Developmental Pediatrics
- Gastroenterology & Nutrition
- Genetics
- Infectious Disease
- International Health
- Neurology
- Occupational Therapy
- Ophthalmology
- Physical Therapy
- Psychology
- Social Work
- Speech & Language Therapy
In close collaboration with several parent groups, such as Families of Russian and Ukrainian Adoption and the Romanian Connection, the Center for Child & Human Development conducts or sponsors local and regional conferences to disseminate information. Issues addressed pertain to adoption in general and foreign adoptions in particular and include health, child development, cultural differences, parenting, psychosocial, legal, and ethical aspects of adoption.
The IAHRC accepts third party payment for most HMOs, POSs, PPOs and private health insurance.
For futher information, please contact:
Nina Scribanu, M.D. (202) 444-8518
Shauna Fields (202) 444-0168
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