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Author Blatt, Burton, 1927-1985.

Title In and out of mental retardation : essays on educability, disability, and human policy / Burton Blatt
Published Baltimore : University Park Press, [1981]
©1981

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 MELB  362.30973 B644I  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 369 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 349-355
Subject People with mental disabilities -- Education -- United States.
People with mental disabilities -- Government policy -- United States.
People with mental disabilities -- United States.
Education of Intellectually Disabled.
Intellectual Disability.
LC no. 81001652
ISBN 0839116640 (paperback)