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Adopting `problem' children may be perfect blessing.
Byline: Teri Sforza
SANTA ANA, Calif. _ First, she turned the TV volume up. Way up.
Then, Robin Workman enfolded foster daughter Nikki in her arms and hugged her _ even as Nikki thrashed, kicked, bit and screamed a scream that could wake the dead and kill them all over again.
Nikki, then 3, had been diagnosed with autism after a life of neglect and abuse. She sat and rocked, refused to look anyone in the eye, hated being touched. But three, four, five times a day, the TV volume went up _ so there was something to focus on besides the shrieks _ and Workman patiently performed "holding therapy," falling crazy in love with the iron-willed little girl.
Workman and her husband adopted Nikki and soon discovered the autism diagnosis was wrong. Today, Nikki is 20, a successful student on scholarship at the University of California, Irvine, pursuing pre-med courses and doing volunteer work to help kids still stuck in the foster-care system she escaped.
"A lot of people say they don't want a child with problems," Robin Workman said. "But just because they have problems today doesn't mean they're going to have problems forever."
This is the sort of success story that the state and federal governments are trying to replicate all over the nation.
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