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EXCERPT: In this essay I will attempt to define the nature of various models which appear to underlie the design, location, and operation of residential facilities for the mentally retarded. I will then trace the historical evolution of various models that have been and are most prominent in the United States....

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TITLE:  The Origin And Nature Of Our Institutional Models
FROM:  Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded
CREATOR:  Wolf Wolfensberger (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.5, 63-171b
 
KEYWORDS:  Abuse, Architecture, Asylums, Charity, Children, Civil Rights, Cognitive Disability, Confinement, Crime, Deinstitutionalization, Doctors, Economics, Edouard Seguin, Education, Eugenics, Feeblemindedness, Government, Heredity, Hervey B. Wilbur, Hospitals, Human Rights, Identity, Idiocy, Insanity, Institutions, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Massachusetts, Medical Professionals, Medicine, Mental Retardation, New York, Nomenclature, Policy, Poverty, Prejudice, President's Committee On Mental Retardation, Religion, Reproduction, Samuel Gridley Howe, Segregation, Sexuality, Special Education, Statistics, Sterilization, W.E. Fernald, Wolf Wolfensberger, Work
 
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