DHM: Preparation Of Persons With Mental Retardation For Adult Living (Document)

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EXCERPT: The title for my presentation is "Preparing the Mentally Retarded for Adult Living." Yet some persons feel even today that mentally retarded individuals do not reach the status of adulthood. While we do not hear as much today about the "eternal child" as was the case some years ago, in many subtle and not so subtle ways the mentally retarded person is treated as if a child....

TITLE:	Preparation Of Persons With Mental Retardation For Adult Living
FROM:	Speeches Of Rosemary F. Dybwad
CREATOR:	Rosemary F. Dybwad (author)
DATE:	1974
FORMAT:	Speech

SOURCE:	Friends of the Samuel Gridley Howe Library and the Dybwad Family

KEYWORDS:	Activists; Advocacy; Bengt Nirje; Children; Cognitive Disability; Family; Group Home; Identity; Independent Living; Intelligence; Intelligence Tests; Japan; Mental Retardation; Normalization; Parenting; Policy; Psychology; Rosemary Dybwad; Sweden

NOTE:	Speech delivered at Third Caribbean Congress on Mental Retardation, Barbados, W.I.

OBJECTS	FROM THIS ARTIFACT: - An International Look At Developmental Disabilities (doc) - Human Rights: Myth Or Reality (doc) - Mental Handicap: The World Scene (doc) - Preparation Of Persons With Mental Retardation For Adult Living (doc) - Prevention And Intervention In England: A 1975 Perspective (doc) - The Mentally Retarded Child Today -- The Adult Of Tomorrow (doc) - The Needs Of Children (doc) - The Role Of Voluntary Organizations (doc)

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