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Excerpt from: A Metropolitan Area In Denmark: Copenhagen The purpose of a modern service for the mentally retarded is to "normalize" their lives. For children, normalization means living in their natural surroundings, playing, going to kindergartens and schools, etc. Adults must have the right to leave the home of their parents, to be trained and taught, and to pursue employment. Children as well as adults need leisure time and recreation as part of a normal life. We are trying to integrate the retarded into the community in the best possible way.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | A Metropolitan Area In Denmark: Copenhagen | |
| From: | Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded | |
| Creator: | N.E. Bank-Mikkelsen (author) | |
| Date: | January 10, 1969 | |
| Format: | Government Document | |
| Publisher: | President's Committee on Mental Retardation, Washington, D.C. | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | ch.10, pp.229-254 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Architecture; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Copenhagen, Denmark; Denmark; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Family; Government; Government Agencies; Human Rights; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Leisure; Medicine & Science; Mental Retardation; Normalization; Parenting; Personal Assistance; Policy; Prejudice; President's Committee On Mental Retardation; Schools; Social Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Statistics; Urban Life; Wolf Wolfensberger | |
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