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Children with Autism in Foster Care

Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Foster care is a system in which children, youth, and young adults are temporarily placed outside of their birth family’s home. The state maintains oversight of this child-focused system through the involvement of the courts and child protection service agencies. Increasingly, most states have recognized that group care, in which young people are placed in group homes or in a residential setting, is not the best option for youth in need of out-of-home care. As such, other options, such as family care or kinship care and foster parenting, have undergone extensive and robust development and have been fairly widely utilized in various states. The general types of foster care include family/kinship care were the youth is placed with someone related by biology or marriage, placement in emergency shelters, traditional county-level foster care (placement with a certified foster parent in their home), therapeutic foster care (placement with certified foster parents in their home...

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    Deborah Napolitano, Vanessa Patrone & Kellie Kotwicki

  2. Golisano Institute for Developmental Disability Nursing, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, USA

    Deborah Napolitano

  3. Positive ABA, LLC, Queen Creek, AZ, USA

    Kellie Kotwicki

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Napolitano, D., Patrone, V., Kotwicki, K. (2020). Children with Autism in Foster Care. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_102126-2

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