Blatt, Burton, 1927- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0839116640 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mentally handicapped--United States--Addresses, essays, lectures<br/>Mentally handicapped--Education--United States--Addresses, essays, lectures<br/>Mentally handicapped--Government policy--United States--Addresses, essays, lectures<br/>Education of mentally retarded--Collected works<br/>Mental retardation--Collected works