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Prevention And Intervention In England: A 1975 Perspective
Six weeks of intensive discussion in Britain with professional workers from the fields of education, health, and social service in local and state agencies, both public and private, as well as with individual parents of mentally handicapped children, make it fairly obvious that the decisive changes which had been expected as a consequence of the radical reordering of statutory and administrative provisions in the field of mental handicap have fallen far short of expectations....
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Title: Prevention And Intervention In England: A 1975 Perspective
From: Speeches Of Rosemary F. Dybwad
Creator: Rosemary F. Dybwad (author)
Date: 1975
Format: Speech
Source: Friends of the Samuel Gridley Howe Library and the Dybwad Family
Keywords: Activists; Advocacy; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Diagnoses & Diseases; Down Syndrome; Education; Educational Institutions; England; Family; Government; International Relations; Medicine & Science; Parenting; Policy; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Rosemary Dybwad; Service Organizations; Social Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Work; Treatments Therapies Cures
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy
Note: Speech delivered at Castle Priory College, Wallingford, England.


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