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Special Olympics Summer Games

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The Special Olympics Summer Games will be taking place in June of 2011. It is a wonderful opportunity for children, (and adults), with intellectual or physical disabilities to participate, compete, and have fun in an environment filled with people who understand and support them. Your child could be an athlete. In order to be an athlete in Special Olympics, a person must be at least eight years old. There isn’t an upward age limit, which means that the Special Olympics is open to both children and adults. In order to be eligible, athletes must have a cognitive delay, an intellectual … Continue reading →

So You Think the Olympics Ended in August? Think Again!

Why would I be writing about another Olympic role model with adoption ties a month after the Olympic Games ended? Well, in reality the Games ended just this past week. From September 6-13, the Paralympic Games took place in Beijing. The world’s second-largest sporting event–elite competitions for athletes with physical or visual disabilities–draws the best disabled athletes from all over the world. The “para” in Paralympics is for “parallel”, on a par with, rather than paraplegic as some people assume. The Paralympic Games are held in the same year and at the same location as the Olympic Games. Cities and … Continue reading →

Book Review: After the Morning Calm

After the Morning Calm is another anthology of works by Korean adoptees. It is edited by Nancy Fox, adoptive mother, founder of the adoption agency Americans for Internation al Aid and Adoption and past president of the Joint Council on International Children’s Services; and by Sook Wilkinson, PhD, a Korean-American psychotherapist who has worked with adopted Korean children. She is the author of Birth is More than Once: The Inner World of Adopted Korean Children, which you can read my review of here. The editors acknowledge their debit to Voices from Another Place (see yesterday’s blog for a review), which … Continue reading →