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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Blatt, Burton, 1927-1985
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore, Md. : University Park Press, [1981]
Subjects:	People with mental disabilities > United States. People with mental disabilities > Education > United States. People with mental disabilities > Government policy > United States. Education of Intellectually Disabled > Collected works. Intellectual Disability > Collected works.

Table of 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. Reflections on the Now-Movement. Life with the decision makers. Bureaucratizing values.