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| EXCERPT: Typically, public residential facilities have been plagued by a triple problem: overcrowding, understaffing, and underfinancing. To complicate matters further, the public, long accustomed to knowing little about mental retardation, often held inaccurate information, and there was a mystique about the retarded and other handicapping conditions involving feelings of hopelessness, repulsion, and fear.... |
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| TITLE: |
Why Innovative Action? |
| CREATOR: |
Robert B. Kugel (author) |
| DATE: |
January 10, 1969 |
| FORMAT: |
Government Document |
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| FROM: |
Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded |
| PUBLISHER: |
President’s Committee on Mental Retardation, Washington, D.C. |
| SOURCE: |
Available at selected libraries |
| LOCATION: |
ch.1, pp.1-14 |
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| KEYWORDS: |
Architecture, Attendants, Bengt Nirje, Burton Blatt, Cognitive Disability, Deinstitutionalization, Economics, Employment, Government, Group Home, Gunnar Dybwad, Henry H. Goddard, Human Rights, Institutions, Kallikaks, Mental Retardation, Neglect, Normalization, Policy, Prejudice, President's Committee On Mental Retardation, President's Panel On Mental Retardation, Public Welfare, Segregation, Wolf Wolfensberger |
| | | SEE ALSO | FROM THIS ARTIFACT:
- Action Implications, U.S.A. Today
- A Metropolitan Area In Denmark: Copenhagen
- A Scandinavian Visitor Looks At U.S. Institutions
- The Normalization Principle And Its Human Management Implications
- The Origin And Nature Of Our Institutional Models | |
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