Dr. Ronald Federici
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neuropsychiatric evaluations with children having significant
neurodevelopmental and emotional difficulties. He is a professional
consultant to numerous schools, mental health clinics, pediatric and
adolescent medicine clinics, court service units and adoption groups,
and is frequently called upon to perform “second opinions” for the
most difficult to diagnose cases. Dr. Federici also works extensively
in forensic neuropsychology and has served as an expert witness in
cases involving the assessment and rehabilitation of traumatic brain
injury or other neurological disorders.
Dr. Ronald Federici lectures nationally and internationally on matters
pertaining to developmental neuropsychology and severe
neuropsychiatric disorders of children, particularly children from
post-institutionalized settings. He is regarded as the country’s
expert in neuropsychiatric evaluations of internationally adopted
children, particularly children from Eastern Europe. He has a special
interest in Romanian and Russian orphans, and has evaluated well over
a thousand Eastern European adoptees and those still residing in their
respective countries. Dr. Federici has appeared on numerous national
television and radio shows such as 20/20, Turning Point, Night Line,
Good Morning America, British Broadcasting Corporation, as well as
publishing in magazines and newspapers around the world regarding the
institutional crises in various countries, particularly Eastern
Europe.
Dr. Ronald Federici has published various articles in addition to his
book entitled “Help for the Hopeless Child: A Guide for Families (With
Special Discussion for Assessing and Treating the Post-
Institutionalized Child)”. He has developed the concepts of
“Institutional Autism: An Acquired Syndrome” in addition to
researching extensively the “Neuropsychology of Bonding and Attachment
Disorders”. His second book entitled “Escape From Despair: Through
the Eyes of the Child” is in press.
Dr. Ronald Federici serves as President of the Care for Children
International, Inc. which is a Humanitarian Aid Organization providing
medical care, supplies, training and education to the Romanian
Department of Child Protective Services. Dr. Federici holds an
honorary position as Chief Medical Consultant regarding
institutionalized children in Romania. He is held in the highest
regard with the Romanian government and the Romanian Ambassador to the
U.S. Dr. Federici’s humanitarian organization has worked for many
years throughout Romanian institutions and has provided comprehensive
medical and neuropsychiatric care in addition to being one of the
leading groups in de-institutionalizing children. He is personally
responsible for building multiple group homes, independent living
situations and leading multiple medical missions and providing
millions of dollars of urgently needed medical care, medication,
supplies, food and training to address the child welfare/institutional
crisis which has plagued Romania for a decade. Currently, Dr.
Federici is working with several international humanitarian groups in
providing a proposal for comprehensive-country wide change of the
Romanian institutional system. Dr. Federici and his group of well
over 30 committed medical specialists from all disciplines are
frequently called upon by numerous institutions and governmental
offices throughout Romania to consult and assist counties and
governmental departments with the ultimate goal being the development
of new programs aimed at de-institutionalization and stabilization of
the Romanian social system, family and regional/county economic
distribution of funds for institutionalized children.
Dr. Ronald Federici has been involved in extensive lobbying efforts on
Capital Hill to improve the policies and procedures for international
adoptions, and also offered expert professional testimony on October
5, 1999 to Senator Jesse Helms and the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee regarding the problems in international adoptions and issues
with the Hague Treaty. Additionally, Dr. Federici has lobbied
extensively to preserve the integrity and responsibility of USAID
spending in Romania, and has provided multiple reports to USAID,
Washington regarding Romanian child welfare reform, programs, funding
and opinions regarding distribution of foreign aid. Dr. Federici
continues to work aggressively to secure private funding and USAID
funding for Romanian-specific child welfare reform programs and has
completed an extensive “proposal” which is aimed at country-wide
institutional reform.
Learn more about Dr. Federici and his innovative work:
http://ronaldfederici.wordpress.com
http://childrenintherapy.wordpress.com