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Author:

Blatt, Burton, 1927-

Title:

In and out of mental retardation : essays on educability, disability, and human policy / Burton Blatt.

Publisher:

University Park Press,

Copyright Date:

c1981

Description:

xv, 369 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

People with mental disabilities--United States.
People with mental disabilities--Education--United States.
People with mental disabilities--Government policy--United States.
Education of Mentally Retarded--Collected Works.
Mental Retardation--Collected Works.
Handicapés mentaux--États-Unis.
Handicapés mentaux--Éducation--États-Unis.
Handicapés mentaux--Politique gouvernementale--États-Unis.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 349-355. Includes index.

Contents:

Educability: Toward an understanding of people with special needs. A concept of educability and the correlates of mental illness, mental retardation, and cultural deprivation. Teaching the mentally retarded.Poems and aphorisms. How to destroy lives by telling stories --Disability: Purgatory. Exodus from pandemonium. This crazy business. From institution to community, a conversion model. The family papers, a return to purgatory -- Human policy: Man through a turned lens. On the Bill of rights and related matters. On competencies and incompetencies, instruction and destruction, individualization and depersonalization. Life with the decision makers. Bureaucratizing values.

ISBN:

9780839116646 (pbk.)
0839116640 (pbk.)

LCCN:

81001652

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)