Mental Retardation In The Year 2000

Author : Louis Rowitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461391156
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Retardation in the Year 2000 written by Louis Rowitz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you look at the advances in the field of mental retardation over the past 30 years, it is hard to imagine that more change is inevitable. Yet, I think back to the time when, early in his presidency, President Kennedy called together the brightest scientists, researchers, doctors, and educators to develop a comprehensive plan for the nation to effectively care for, treat, educate, and house persons with mental retardation. In the early 1960s the call for new research into the causes and the amelioration of mental retardation, the development of community-based programs, and the development of family care for appropriate education, vocational training, and jobs were seen as revolutionary. But, in the 30 years since then, we have seen time and time again that it is persons with mental retardation themselves who have led the way. When the schools were opened to them, they learned more than any one ever thought possible; when vocational training was provided, they learned skills that led to jobs; when employment became available, they proved to be good steady workers who earned money and paid taxes. When the playing fields were made available to them through programs such as Special Olympics, they showed the world they could train and compete and WIN in the sports of the Olympics. When communities welcomed them, they became our neighbors. They have earned the right to play on any field, to study in any school, to hold a paying job, and to be anyone's neighbor.

Author : Louis Rowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461391166
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Retardation in the Year 2000 written by Louis Rowitz and published by . This book was released on 1992-03-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanley C. Plog
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461591287
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year 2000 and Mental Retardation written by Stanley C. Plog and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future is exciting-frightening-and demanding! As social and eco nomic change accelerates at an ever-increasing rate, we look with awe and wonder at the way in which unanticipated events impact on our lives and change the way we live. We are also frightened about how well we will adapt to the demands of a world that may be structured quite differently from the familiar environment of today. If we are to handle our own futures with some degree of skill and adap tiveness, we need to begin planning today for the dawn of the next century. Otherwise, we may find that events have overrun our capacity to cope. Those of us in the social and helping sectors of the economy have a responsibility for the future welfare of persons who are less able to look out for their own needs or to protect themselves from the vagaries of economic fluctuations or major dislocations in the social fabric of the land. The President's Committee on Mental Retardation is proud of its deci sion to look at the year 2000 and its impact on the mentally retarded. Our goals were straightforward-to understand how unfolding events can affect the lives of the mentally retarded, for good or ill, a generation from now.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309376882
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Disorders and Disabilities Among Low-Income Children written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately 1.3 million children who were recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits in 2013, about 50% were disabled primarily due to a mental disorder. An increase in the number of children who are recipients of SSI benefits due to mental disorders has been observed through several decades of the program beginning in 1985 and continuing through 2010. Nevertheless, less than 1% of children in the United States are recipients of SSI disability benefits for a mental disorder. At the request of the Social Security Administration, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children compares national trends in the number of children with mental disorders with the trends in the number of children receiving benefits from the SSI program, and describes the possible factors that may contribute to any differences between the two groups. This report provides an overview of the current status of the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, and the levels of impairment in the U.S. population under age 18. The report focuses on 6 mental disorders, chosen due to their prevalence and the severity of disability attributed to those disorders within the SSI disability program: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, learning disabilities, and mood disorders. While this report is not a comprehensive discussion of these disorders, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children provides the best currently available information regarding demographics, diagnosis, treatment, and expectations for the disorder time course - both the natural course and under treatment.

Author : Robert L. Schalock
Publisher : American Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality of Life written by Robert L. Schalock and published by American Association. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the concept of quality of life for persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities. Part I, "Quality of Life: Personal Perspectives," contains "A Dream for Myself" (Connie Martinez); "Reflections on My Quality of Life: Then and Now" (Nancy Ward); "Quality of Life versus Quality of Life Judgments: A Parent's Perspective" (Diane Crutcher); "My Sister Angie: A Sibling's Perspective" (Jeff Jacoby); "Quality of Life and the Individual's Perspective" (Steven Taylor and Robert Bogdan); and "Thinking about and Discussing Quality of Life" (David Goode). Part II deals with service delivery issues and contains: "Home Is the Place: Quality of Life for Young Children with Developmental Disabilities" (David Coulter); "Quality of Life from Childhood to Adulthood" (Jack Stark and Tammi Goldsbury); "Persons in Transition" (Orv Karan and others); "Quality of Life: Issues in Community Integration" (Kenneth Keith); "Quality of Work Life" (William Kiernan and Kari Knutson); "Growing Old with Dignity: On Quality of Life for Older Persons with a Lifelong Disability" (Matthew Janicki); and "Quality of Life and Lifestyle Outcomes: A Challenge for Residential Programs" (G. Thomas Bellamy and others). Part III contains four papers that discuss assessment and measurement issues, including: "Attempts to Conceptualize and Measure Quality of Life" (Robert Schalock); "Quality of Life from a Longitudinal Research Perspective" (Robert Edgerton); "Methodological Issues in Measuring the Quality of Life of Individuals with Mental Retardation" (Laird Heal and Carol Sigelman); and "Quality of Life of Persons with Severe or Profound Mental Retardation." Part IV, which discusses the future of quality of life as a concept and a principle, comprises five papers, including: "Quality of Life and Public Philosophy" (H. Turnbull III and Gary Brunk); "A Lawyer's Perspective on Quality of Life" (Ruth Luckasson); "Quality Assurance: Challenges in a Decentralized System" (Valerie Bradley); "Measuring Quality of Life: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going?" (James Conroy and Celia Feinstein), and "Where Do We Go from Here?" (Robert Schalock). (JDD)

Author : Stanley C. Plog
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461591290
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year 2000 and Mental Retardation written by Stanley C. Plog and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan Blacher
Publisher : AAMR
ISBN 13 : 0940898764
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of AAMR written by Jan Blacher and published by AAMR. This book was released on 2002 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical reference that chronicles parental involvement - or the surprising lack of - in mental retardation services from 1876 to 2000 in America.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309083230
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Retardation written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-08-09 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current estimates suggest that between one and three percent of people living in the United States will receive a diagnosis of mental retardation. Mental retardation, a condition characterized by deficits in intellectual capabilities and adaptive behavior, can be particularly hard to diagnose in the mild range of the disability. The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides income support and medical benefits to individuals with cognitive limitations who experience significant problems in their ability to perform work and may therefore be in need of governmental support. Addressing the concern that SSA's current procedures are consistent with current scientific and professional practices, this book evaluates the process used by SSA to determine eligibility for these benefits. It examines the adequacy of the SSA definition of mental retardation and its current procedures for assessing intellectual capabilities, discusses adaptive behavior and its assessment, advises on ways to combine intellectual and adaptive assessment to provide a complete profile of an individual's capabilities, and clarifies ways to differentiate mental retardation from other conditions.

Author : Martha A. Field
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674036840
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation written by Martha A. Field and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging in sex, becoming parents, raising children: these are among the most personal decisions we make, and for people with mental retardation, these decisions are consistently challenged, regulated, and outlawed. This book is a comprehensive study of the American legal doctrines and social policies, past and present, that have governed procreation and parenting by persons with mental retardation. It argues persuasively that people with retardation should have legal authority to make their own decisions. Despite the progress of the normalization movement, which has moved so many people with mental retardation into the mainstream since the 1960s, negative myths about reproduction and child rearing among this population persist. Martha Field and Valerie Sanchez trace these prejudices to the eugenics movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show how misperceptions have led to inconsistent and discriminatory outcomes when third parties seek to make birth control or parenting decisions for people with mental retardation. They also explore the effect of these decisions on those they purport to protect. Detailed, thorough, and just, their book is a sustained argument for reform of the legal practices and social policies it describes.

Author : R. C. Scheerenberger
Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Mental Retardation written by R. C. Scheerenberger and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: