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Excerpt from: Mental Handicap: The World Scene There is no one country which has all the answers for coping with the problem of mental retardation. New discoveries are made, new developments take place in many countries, and one of the main functions of the parent associations has been to act as an international communications network to make new developments more widely known and to insist -- and insist -- that the authorities put this new knowledge to use.... | Read Full Text |
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Title: | Mental Handicap: The World Scene | |
From: | Speeches Of Rosemary F. Dybwad | |
Creator: | Rosemary F. Dybwad (author) | |
Date: | 1975 | |
Format: | Speech | |
Source: | Friends of the Samuel Gridley Howe Library and the Dybwad Family | |
Keywords: | Activists; Advocacy; Canada; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Education; Educational Institutions; England; Family; Government; Human Rights; Identity; International League Of Societies For The Mentally Handicapped; International Relations; Legislation; Mental Retardation; Parenting; Policy; Rosemary Dybwad; Self Help; The Arc; United Nations | |
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Note: | Speech delivered at the Kings Fund Centre, London. |