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Pie charts displaying percentages of causes and classifications of mental retardation.
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Title: Causes And Classification
From: MR 67: A First Report To The President On The Nation's Progress And Remaining Great Needs In The Campaign To Combat Mental Retardation
Original caption: MENTAL RETARDATION BY CAUSE
Organic -- Genetic, Unknown prenatal, New growth (for example, tumors), Metabolic, Trauma, Intoxication, Infection
25%
Socio-Environmental (also Psychological)
75%
CLASSIFICATION OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED POPULATION
Moderate (6%)
Severe (3.5%)
Profound (1.5%)
Mild (89%)
Creator: n/a
Date: 1967
Format: Charts & Tables
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Source: Available at selected libraries
Keywords: Advocacy; Alcohol; Cognitive Disability; Disease; Government; Heredity; Medicine & Science; Mental Retardation; Nomenclature; Policy; President's Committee On Mental Retardation; Psychology; Social Welfare & Communities; Statistics
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Social Movements & Advocacy


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