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A Scandinavian Visitor Looks At U.S. Institutions

From: Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded
Creator: Bengt Nirje (author)
Date: January 10, 1969
Publisher: President's Committee on Mental Retardation, Washington, D.C.
Source: Available at selected libraries

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A reaction to conditions such as I observed cannot be sufficiently described in general terms, nor can it be made constructively meaningful without a defined point of view. The point of view which I choose to apply will be referred to as the "normalization principle," and will be discussed in a later section of this book.

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