Readiness to Adopt Children with Special Needs: A Self-Survey for Prospective Adoptive Parents

This survey is for prospective adoption parents who are considering adopting children children with special needs. Children with special needs have experienced adversities, such as abuse, neglect, and abandonment, or may have neurological, psychological, and behavioral issues that require special care. Your answers will show you where you have strengths as a parent and where you have room for improvement.

If you have a partner, your partner should fill out his or her own survey, too. The survey is designed for partners to talk to each other about their answers to the survey questions.

Adoption professionals at the agencies where you are applying to adopt children may talk to you about some of the issues that this survey raises.