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Excerpt from: Why Innovative Action? Typically, public residential facilities have been plagued by a triple problem: overcrowding, understaffing, and underfinancing. To complicate matters further, the public, long accustomed to knowing little about mental retardation, often held inaccurate information, and there was a mystique about the retarded and other handicapping conditions involving feelings of hopelessness, repulsion, and fear.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Why Innovative Action? | |
| From: | Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded | |
| Creator: | Robert B. Kugel (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.1, pp.1-14 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Architecture; Attendants; Bengt Nirje; Burton Blatt; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Deinstitutionalization; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Employment; Government; Group Home; Gunnar Dybwad; Henry H. Goddard; Human Rights; Institutions; Kallikaks; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Mental Retardation; Neglect; Normalization; Policy; Prejudice; President's Committee On Mental Retardation; President's Panel On Mental Retardation; Public Welfare; Segregation; Social Welfare & Communities; Wolf Wolfensberger | |
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