How To Adopt A Child New York

brain power: unlocking the power of the brain tom and gloria costello say they have a familylike any other. they have 17 children. 14 of whom are adopted with special needs.

How To Adopt A Child New York, the costello family welcomed the brain powerteam into their home, to share their story and experience the impact of our technology. tom and i met when we were 16, in high school. and, uh, got married when we were 22, and we decided that we wanted tohave 4 children and we had our whole plan and then, uh, tom had a little cancer scare.and, uh, we thought our life was gonna change

for the worst. and his tumor turned out tobe benign. and then we talked about what did we want to do. we have now this time thatwe didn’t think we were going to have. and then we decided we wanted to adopt just onemore child. and that’s when we brought nick home. so he’s our first child born witha disability. he has down syndrome and autism. just found we had a real love for raisingnicholas . we wound up adopting - how many more? gloria and tom: many more! (laughter) gloria: so that’s how we wound up with 17children altogether. how much milk do you buy every...? how much bread do you buy? butthe truth is they don’t come at once. it’s just not suddenly 17, and it’s really justlike everyone else’s family.

tom: we try to have a lot of structure and,you know... gloria: we always say we have a plan likea fine ballet. tom: uh, we really made a commitment whenwe took these children in that we were going to do the best that we could for each oneof them. and, you know, whatever it takes is what we do. it’s good, i mean we do whatwe have to do for them. as soon as the glasses went on and he couldsee, uh, something in the picture, he immediately calmed down. the rocking stopped. he got very,very, very calm. and i was like “oh my god, look at this. this is unbelievable.” gloria: autism, for me, is one of the hardestones and i really long to know what he thinks.

so any time i can get a glimpse or a lookinto what are they thinking or how are they feeling? that’s a big gift. i’m reallyexcited for the future. hoping that with the advancement of technology, we’re going tobe help him more with what he needs. just when you’re about to give up. when you thinkit’s never going to happen, he’s going to do it. but you have to learn to ask forhelp from professionals and from other people. you know, a lot of people say “oh you’rean angel” or “you’re so wonderful.” and, you know, we accept the compliment becausewe know we’re trying to do something good with our lives, but the truth is what we getback is way more than what, um, we do for them. mostly people say, “aren’t you tired?”i’m like, “yeah, we’re tired. you’re

tired. everyone’s tired when they go tobed. but knowing that when your life is over that you’ve made a difference? i mean, that’sreally priceless. son: are they upside down? tom: yeah! (laughter)