Into the Light
Subtitle: Helping People with Handicaps at Flower Hospital
By: edited by Robert F. DiCuio and Robert B. Kugel.
Contributors: DiCuio, Robert F.; Kugel, Robert B.
Publisher: New York Medical Publishing and Flower Hospital
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Flower Hospital (New York); Developmental Disabilities.; Mental Retardation.; Delivery of Health Care -- New York.; Principle of Normalization
Description: In the 1970s, New York State was ordered by a Federal consent decree to close down the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island in New York City.  Many of the profoundly developmentally and physically disabled residents of that facility were sent to Flower Hospital.  This book is a description of the multidisciplinary programs that were established by both rehab and medical disciplines to improve the quality of life for the residents. Each chapter was written by  specialists in each discipline. Each editor also contributed a chapter focusing on the principle of "normalization", which formed the philosophical underpinning for the hospital's programs.