In and out of mental retardation essays on educability, disability, and human policy /
Blatt, Burton, 1927-
In and out of mental retardation essays on educability, disability, and human policy / By Burton Blatt. - Baltimore : University Park Press, 1981 - 369 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Contents: 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 --Disability: Purgatory. Exodus from pandemonium. This crazy business. From institution to community, a conversion model. The family papers, a return to purgatory -- 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
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Mentally handicapped--United States--Addresses, essays, lectures
Mentally handicapped--Education--United States--Addresses, essays, lectures
Mentally handicapped--Government policy--United States--Addresses, essays, lectures
Education of mentally retarded--Collected works
Mental retardation--Collected works
In and out of mental retardation essays on educability, disability, and human policy / By Burton Blatt. - Baltimore : University Park Press, 1981 - 369 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Contents: 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 --Disability: Purgatory. Exodus from pandemonium. This crazy business. From institution to community, a conversion model. The family papers, a return to purgatory -- 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
0839116640
Mentally handicapped--United States--Addresses, essays, lectures
Mentally handicapped--Education--United States--Addresses, essays, lectures
Mentally handicapped--Government policy--United States--Addresses, essays, lectures
Education of mentally retarded--Collected works
Mental retardation--Collected works