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| EXCERPT: The purpose of a modern service for the mentally retarded is to "normalize" their lives. For children, normalization means living in their natural surroundings, playing, going to kindergartens and schools, etc. Adults must have the right to leave the home of their parents, to be trained and taught, and to pursue employment. Children as well as adults need leisure time and recreation as part of a normal life. We are trying to integrate the retarded into the community in the best possible way.... |
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| TITLE: |
A Metropolitan Area In Denmark: Copenhagen |
| CREATOR: |
N.E. Bank-Mikkelsen (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.10, pp.229-254 |
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| KEYWORDS: |
Architecture, Children, Cognitive Disability, Copenhagen, Denmark, Economics, Education, Family, Government, Human Rights, Institutions, Legislation, Leisure, Mental Retardation, Normalization, Parenting, Personal Assistance, Policy, Prejudice, President's Committee On Mental Retardation, Schools, Social Welfare, Statistics, Urban Life, Wolf Wolfensberger |
| | | SEE ALSO | FROM THIS ARTIFACT:
- Action Implications, U.S.A. Today
- A Scandinavian Visitor Looks At U.S. Institutions
- The Normalization Principle And Its Human Management Implications
- The Origin And Nature Of Our Institutional Models
- Why Innovative Action? | |
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