Stephanie Crouch, our Waiting Child Manager, has been working around the clock looking through the children’s files and searching for families!  If you would like information on any of the children below, please email Stephanie at stephanie@gwca.org.  Please note that you must be a current GW client and either have a LID, or be within 3 months of dossier completion.  You must also have a WC application on file.

1. Z is 8 months old and has unilateral III degree cleft lip and palate, uncorrected.  His medical reports were completed when he was 3.5 months old.  He would smile when teased and could visually follow moving toys.
2. S is 9 months old and has unilateral III degree cleft lip and palate, uncorrected.  His medical reports were completed when he was 1 month old, and his developmental ones at 4 months.  At 4 months he could locate a sound, hold his head up and grab toys.
3. D is 10 months old and had a seizure when he was 2 months old.  A brain CT scan showed an abnormality.  At 6 months old, he was reported to have on target development.  He could roll over and sit with support, and loved toys that make sound.  He loved to be held and played with.
4. J is 9 months old.  He has cleft palate and is post-operative for Congenital VSD; Secondary severe PH; Congenital overriding aorta.  At 6 months old, he loved to jump while being held, babbled and smiled when teased.
5. M is 11 months old and has an underdeveloped right arm.  At 2 months old, his vision development was perfect; he can follow walking people visually. his hearing development was also perfect; can show a smiling face occasionally when someone talk to him or tease him.
6. R is 11 months old and has unilateral III degree cleft lip and palate, uncorrected.  His reports were completed when he was 5 months old.  He could roll over and he liked musical and bright color toys.
7. L is 11 months old and is blind.  Her reports were done when she was 2 months old.  She was developmentally on target.
8. Y is 14 months old and has clubbed feet and post-operative VSD.  At 10 months old, he could tear papers, use thumbs and index fingers deftly, bang toys together, make ah-ah sounds, and respond with his facial expressions. He likes being cuddled and played with.
9. S is 15 months old and has post-operative cleft lip and a cleft palate.  His reports were done at 10 months.  He likes communicating with others and playing games, he likes to play freely by climbing on the floor, at present he likes to be cuddled and likes the toys with music.
10. H is 16 months old and has syndactyly of his fingers, underdevelopment of two toes, cleft palate and is post-operative for cleft lip.  He was also slightly anemic.  At 11 months old, he knows the meaning of bu, and is interested in the environment around, and wants to see everything.