In and out of mental retardation essays on educability, disability, and human policy
Blatt, Burton,1927-1985.
Baltimore University Park Press
c1981
Includes index
Bibliography: p. 349-355
Contents: Educability: Toward an understanding of people with special needs. A concept of educability and the correlates of mental illness, mental retardation, and cultural deprivation. Teaching the mentally retarded.Poems and aphorisms. How to destroy lives by telling stories --Disability: Purgatory. Exodus from pandemonium. This crazy business. From institution to community, a conversion model. The family papers, a return to purgatory -- Human policy: Man through a turned lens. On the Bill of rights and related matters. On competencies and incompetencies, instruction and destruction, individualization and depersonalization. Life with the decision makers. Bureaucratizing values
People with mental disabilities
People with mental disabilities
People with mental disabilities
People with mental disabilities
Mental retardation