In and out of mental retardation
Subtitle: essays on educability, disability, and human policy
By: Burton Blatt.
Publisher: University Park Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: People with mental disabilities -- United States.; People with mental disabilities -- Education -- United States.; People with mental disabilities -- Government policy -- United States.; Education of mentally retarded -- Collected works.; Mental retardation -- Collected works.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 349-355.
Includes index.
Table of contents: value: 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; value: Disability: Purgatory. Exodus from pandemonium. This crazy business. From institution to community, a conversion model. The family papers, a return to purgatory; value: 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.