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Mental retardation

Title
Mental retardation / Robert B. Edgerton.
Author
Edgerton, Robert B., 1931-2016.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1979.

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Description
125 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Summary
Explains the causes of retardation, the prevention of retardation through such means as genetic counseling and prenatal care, and the methods of helping retarded children on the familial, social, and educational levels.
Series Statement
The Developing child
Uniform Title
Developing child
Subject
  • Children with mental disabilities
  • People with mental disabilities
  • Intellectual disability
  • Intellectual Disability
  • Persons with Mental Disabilities
  • mentally handicapped
  • intellectual disability
  • Intellectual disability
  • Children with mental disabilities
  • People with mental disabilities
Genre/Form
Intellectual Disability.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 113-120.
Contents
What is mental retardation? -- Clinical retardation -- If prevention fails -- Caring for the clinically retarded -- Sociocultural retardation -- The environment -- After schooling -- Some implications for society.
ISBN
  • 0674568850
  • 9780674568853
  • 0674568869
  • 9780674568860
LCCN
78027199
OCLC
  • ocm04642143
  • 4642143
  • SCSB-276564
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library