International Handbook of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
Contributors: Eric Emerson (Editor); Chris Hatton (Editor); Travis Thompson (Editor); Trevor Parmenter (Editor)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: May 28, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780471497097
First sentence: In 1958, Jack Tizard, one of the pioneer giants in the field of the study of intellectual disabilities, wrote: What are most needed today are properly controlled experimental studies and surveys designed to answer particular questions about the social costs of various types of administrative arrangements for dealing with mentally subnormal individuals.