TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blatt,Burton,1927-
TI  - In and out of mental retardation: essays on educability, disability, and human policy 
SN  - 0839116640
PY  - 1981///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - University Park Press
KW  - Mentally handicapped
KW  - United States
KW  - Addresses, essays, lectures
KW  - Education
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Education of mentally retarded
KW  - Collected works
KW  - Mental retardation
N1  - 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
ER  -