In and out of mental retardation essays on educability, disability, and human policy - Blatt, Burton, 1927- (Baltimore : University Park Press, 1981)
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
Includes index.
Keywords: 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