Author: Bertha E. SchlotterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children with mental disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
An Experiment in Recreation with the Mentally Retarded
Author: Bertha E. SchlotterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children with mental disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation
Author: Ameliorating Mental Disability
Author: Alfred A. BaumeisterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351533010
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
This book grows out of the optimistic view that mental retardation can be treated. It views mental retardation primarily as a behavioral problem. A child is diagnosed as retarded primarily because he behaves in certain maladaptive ways, not simply because he may have a chromosomal anomaly. The contributors view any intervention intended to produce adaptive changes in the behavior of the retarded as "treatment." The authors come from the fields of medicine, special education, and speech and hearing, as well as from psychology. The book is intended to help students and workers in the field apply research findings and theoretical formulations in their appraisal and treatment of mental retardation. The primary emphasis of the book is empirical. While many of the author's suggestions have not been subjected to rigorous experimental scrutiny, almost all have been derived from close examination of the research literature. A wide diversity of topics are included in this volume. Criteria employed were the relevance of the topic to the understanding and modifi cation of defective behavior; and the subject's popularity or neglect in other sources. Ameliorating Mental Disability will be of interest to medical officers in institutions for the mentally challenged, lecturers giving courses for teachers of the educationally subnormal, and to psychologists, social workers, and teachers.
The Kennedy Family and the Story of Mental Retardation
Author: Edward ShorterPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566397827
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
According to Edward Shorter, just forty years ago the institutions housing people with mental retardation (MR) had become a national scandal. The mentally retarded who lived at home were largely isolated and a source of family shame. Although some social stigma still attaches to the people with developmental disabilities (a range of conditions including what until recently was called mental retardation), they now actively participate in our society and are entitled by law to educational, social, and medical services. The immense improvement in their daily lives and life chances came about in no small part because affected families mobilized for change but also because the Kennedy family made mental retardation its single great cause. Long a generous benefactor of MR-related organizations, Joseph P. Kennedy made MR the special charitable interest of the family foundation he set up in the 1950s. Although he gave all of his children official roles, he involved his daughter Eunice in performing its actual work--identifying appropriate recipients of awards and organizing the foundation's activities. With unique access to family and foundation papers, Shorter brings to light the Kennedy family's strong commitment to public service, showing that Rose and Joe taught their children by precept and example that their wealth and status obligated them to perform good works. Their parents expected each of them to apply their considerable energies to making a difference. Eunice Kennedy Shriver took up that charge and focused her organizational and rhetorical talents on putting MR on the federal policy agenda. As a sister of the President of the United States, she had access to the most powerful people in the country and drew their attention to the desperate situation of families affected by mental retardation. Her efforts made an enormous difference, resulting in unprecedented public attention to MR and new approaches to coordinating medical and social services. Along with her husband, R. Sargent Shriver, she made the Special Olympics a international, annual event in order to encourage people with mental retardation to develop their skills and discover the joy of achievement. She emerges from these pages as a remarkable and dedicated advocate for people with developmental disabilities. Shorter's account of mental retardation presents an unfamiliar view of the Kennedy family and adds a significant chapter to the history of disability in this country. Author note: Edward Shorter is a Professor at the University of Toronto where he holds the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine. He is the author of A History of Psychiatry from the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac, as well as many other books in the fields of history and medicine.
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation
Author: Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 008085785X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation
Rehabilitation of the Handicapped Programs, 1976
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on the HandicappedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Army Medical Library)
Author: Army Medical Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: National Urban Recreation Study, Cincinnati/Hamilton
Author: United States. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. Lake Central RegionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cincinnati (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description