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MR 67: A First Report To The President On The Nation's Progress And Remaining Great Needs In The Campaign To Combat Mental Retardation
IT IS NEARLY FIVE YEARS SINCE a panel of the nation's leading authorities on mental retardation, appointed by President John F. Kennedy, made the first thorough survey of what was being done for the retarded and what needed to be done. It is now time to assess what has been accomplished since then and to set new goals....
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Title: MR 67: A First Report To The President On The Nation's Progress And Remaining Great Needs In The Campaign To Combat Mental Retardation
Creator:  President's Committee on Mental Retardation (authors)
Date: 1967
Format: n/a
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Source: Available at selected libraries
Keywords: Advocacy; Children; Cognitive Disability; Demographics; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Employment; Government; Government Agencies; Heredity; Institutions; John F. Kennedy; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Lyndon Johnson; Medical Professionals; Medicine & Science; Mental Retardation; Nomenclature; Policy; President's Committee On Mental Retardation; Public Welfare; Schools; Social Welfare & Communities; Special Education; Statistics
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy


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