Author: James C. DobsonPublisher: Brunner/Mazel Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Mentally Retarded Child and His Family
Author: James C. DobsonPublisher: Brunner/Mazel Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation
Author: Martha A. FieldPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674036840
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Engaging in sex, becoming parents, raising children: these are among the most personal decisions we make, and for people with mental retardation, these decisions are consistently challenged, regulated, and outlawed. This book is a comprehensive study of the American legal doctrines and social policies, past and present, that have governed procreation and parenting by persons with mental retardation. It argues persuasively that people with retardation should have legal authority to make their own decisions. Despite the progress of the normalization movement, which has moved so many people with mental retardation into the mainstream since the 1960s, negative myths about reproduction and child rearing among this population persist. Martha Field and Valerie Sanchez trace these prejudices to the eugenics movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show how misperceptions have led to inconsistent and discriminatory outcomes when third parties seek to make birth control or parenting decisions for people with mental retardation. They also explore the effect of these decisions on those they purport to protect. Detailed, thorough, and just, their book is a sustained argument for reform of the legal practices and social policies it describes.
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.
The Mentally Retarded Child, a Guide to Services of Social Agencies
Author: Michael J. BegabPublisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Mental Retardation
Author: Robert B. EdgertonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674568860
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Explains the causes of retardation, the prevention of retardation through such means as genetic counseling and prenatal care, and the methods of helping retarded children on the familial, social, and educational levels.
Mental Retardation in America
Author: Steven NollPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814782485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The expressions "idiot, you idiot, you're an idiot, don't be an idiot," and the like are generally interpreted as momentary insults. But, they are also expressions that represent an old, if unstable, history. Beginning with an examination of the early nineteenth century labeling of mental retardation as "idiocy," to what we call developmental, intellectual, or learning disabilities, Mental Retardation in America chronicles the history of mental retardation, its treatment and labeling, and its representations and ramifications within the changing economic, social, and political context of America. Mental Retardation in America includes essays with a wide range of authors who approach the problems of retardation from many differing points of view. This work is divided into five sections, each following in chronological order the major changes in the treatment of people classified as retarded. Exploring historical issues, as well as current public policy concerns, Mental Retardation in America covers topics ranging from representations of the mentally disabled as social burdens and social menaces; Freudian inspired ideas of adjustment and adaptation; the relationship between community care and institutional treatment; historical events, such as the Buck v. Bell decision, which upheld the opinion on eugenic sterilization; the evolution of the disability rights movement; and the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990.
A Difference in the Family
Author: Helen FeatherstonePublisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN: 9780140059410
Category : Children with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Admirable both as a work of scholarship and as a frank chronicle of grief, rage, and guilt."-The New Republic.
Communicating with Normal and Retarded Children
Author: William I. FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Communicating with Normal and Retarded Children explores the way in which normal children acquire language and the mistakes they make. It aims to trace the common growth between professions in understanding of normal language development and the retarded person's language and to encourage research, particularly of an interdisciplinary kind.
The Child who Never Grew
Author: Pearl Sydenstricker BuckPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
An account of the sorrow and the spiritual rewards the author experienced as the mother of a retarded child.
The Mentally Retarded Child at Home
Author: Laura L. DittmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description