Title: The Mentally retarded and society :
Authors: Begab, Michael J.; Richardson, Stephen A.; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.); Rose F. Kennedy Center for Research in Mental Retardation and Human Development.
Date: 1975
Publisher: University Park Press,
Physical description: xix, 492 pages ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: The mentally retarded and society : Trends and issues / Michael J. Begab -- Educational institutions and mental subnormality : Notes on writing a history / Marvin Lazerson -- Public health and mental retardation : New power and new problems / Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser -- Reaction to mental subnormality / Stephen A. Richardson -- Public, peer, and professional attitudes toward mentally retarded persons / Jay Gotttlieb -- Issues relating to the quality of life among mentally retarded person / Robert B. Edgerton -- Sociocultural factors in educational labeling / Jane R. Mercer -- Background considerations in developing strategies for changing attitudes and behavior toward the mentally retarded / Richard D. Ashmore -- Issues in social effectiveness : The case of the mentally retarded / Robert E. Kleck -- Factors that impede the process of socialization / Earl S. Schaefer -- Oral and non-oral representations of communicative and social competence / Aaron V. Cicourel -- Family adaptations to severely mentally retarded children / Bernard Farber -- Foster family care for the intellectually disadvantaged child : The current state of practice and some research perspectives / Margaret Adams -- Intervention in infancy : A developmental approach / Howard L. Garber -- Message from home : Findings from a program for non-retarded, low income preschoolers / Phyllis Levenstein -- Epidemiology and evaluation of services for the mentally handicapped / Albert Kushlick -- The changing lives of mentally retarded adults / Arnold Birenbaum -- Vocational adjustment of the mentally retarded / Andrew S. Halpern, Philip L. Browning, Ester R. Brummer -- Advocacy for the mentally retarded : The development of a new social role / Richard A. Kurtz -- Obstacles to developing community services for the mentally retarded / Herbert J. Cohen -- Reforming programs for youth in trouble / Lloyd E. Ohlin -- Legal, legislative, and bureaucratic factors affecting planned and unplanned change in the delivery of services to the mentally retarded / Elizabeth M. Boggs -- Guided societal change and mental retardation / Amitai Etzioni and Stephan A. Richardson.
Notes: Proceedings of a conference held in Niles, Mich., Apr. 18-20, 1974, sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Rose Kennedy Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Subject headings (LCSH): People with mental disabilities--United States--Congresses.