dr. susan friedman is the medical director.he says, special needs international adoption is the new normal. >> if parents want to adopt a healthy child from chain nats usually a six to seven year wait. >> reporter: friedman says chop's program assists families of all types include domestic adoptions and foster care. doctors review a prospective child's medical history. explain to the families what it all means. how it would affect their existing family unit. and help them decide whether or not they're a good match. before they make the trip abroad. >> and support them when they're in countries if a medical crisis arises while they're in country we help them with that. we help them as soon as they pick up that child to start working on attachment. the farleys say the before, during and after adoption services were invaluable. >> there's so many resources at chop. we really felt supported through bethany and through chop. >> at first we were like kind of like nervous about the special needs thing once we found out that every pers