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Excerpt from: The Origin And Nature Of Our Institutional Models In this essay I will attempt to define the nature of various models which appear to underlie the design, location, and operation of residential facilities for the mentally retarded. I will then trace the historical evolution of various models that have been and are most prominent in the United States.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | The Origin And Nature Of Our Institutional Models | |
| From: | Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded | |
| Creator: | Wolf Wolfensberger (author) | |
| Date: | January 10, 1969 | |
| Format: | Government Document | |
| Publisher: | President's Committee on Mental Retardation, Washington, D.C. | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | ch.5, 63-171b | |
| Keywords: | Abuse; Advocacy; Architecture; Asylums; Charity; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Civil Rights; Cognitive Disability; Confinement; Crime; Deinstitutionalization; Doctors; Economics; Edouard Seguin; Education; Educational Institutions; Eugenics; Feeblemindedness; Government; Government Agencies; Health & Medicine; Heredity; Hervey B. Wilbur; Hospitals; Human Rights; Identity; Idiocy; Insanity; Institutions; Intelligence; Intelligence Tests; Jurisprudence; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Massachusetts; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Mental Retardation; New York; Nomenclature; Policy; Poverty; Prejudice; President's Committee On Mental Retardation; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Religion; Reproduction; Samuel Gridley Howe; Segregation; Service Organizations; Sexuality; Special Education; Statistics; Sterilization; W.E. Fernald; Wolf Wolfensberger; Work | |
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