Extractions: When we began the agency we focused on placing local newborn babies. We emphasized education, counseling and full disclosure of all available information for our domestic, open placements. By placing with adopting families from the Pacific Northwest Canada and the United Kingdom, we learned a great deal about how to provide the very BEST international services. Our agency has always believed in the value of a forever home for ALL children, regardless of the transracial and trans-cultural politics of the day. There are thousands of waiting children. There are many, many parents who would love to adopt. There are numerous families interested in open adoption. Today there are parents who desire to adopt, but are frankly afraid. There are flocks of prospective adoptive parents longing to understand the dynamics of a well thought out adoption. Heritage strives to provide the best care throughout the adoption process. We are vitally interested in life-long education and support which is the anchor of the agency.
Extractions: ISSUE: Literacy development begins in the very early stages of childhood, even though the activities of young children may not seem related to reading and writing. Early behaviors such as "reading" from pictures and "writing" with scribbles are examples of emergent literacy and are an important part of children's literacy development. With the support of parents, caregivers, early childhood educators, and teachers, as well as exposure to a literacy-rich environment, children successfully progress from emergent to conventional reading. The theoretical and research-based knowledge of child development in general and of literacy development in particular provides an understanding of the literacy acquisition of young children and suggests strategies that can help children become successful, confident readers and writers. Overview Goals Action Options Pitfalls ... References OVERVIEW: In 1966, New Zealand researcher Marie Clay introduced the term
