Mentally Retarded Children
Author: Harriet Eleanor Blodgett
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1971-01-01
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1452910812
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Author: Harriet Eleanor Blodgett
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1971-01-01
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1452910812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2015-10-28
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0309376882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately 1.3 million children who were recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits in 2013, about 50% were disabled primarily due to a mental disorder. An increase in the number of children who are recipients of SSI benefits due to mental disorders has been observed through several decades of the program beginning in 1985 and continuing through 2010. Nevertheless, less than 1% of children in the United States are recipients of SSI disability benefits for a mental disorder. At the request of the Social Security Administration, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children compares national trends in the number of children with mental disorders with the trends in the number of children receiving benefits from the SSI program, and describes the possible factors that may contribute to any differences between the two groups. This report provides an overview of the current status of the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, and the levels of impairment in the U.S. population under age 18. The report focuses on 6 mental disorders, chosen due to their prevalence and the severity of disability attributed to those disorders within the SSI disability program: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, learning disabilities, and mood disorders. While this report is not a comprehensive discussion of these disorders, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children provides the best currently available information regarding demographics, diagnosis, treatment, and expectations for the disorder time course - both the natural course and under treatment.
Author: James C. Dobson
Publisher: Brunner/Mazel Publisher
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 524
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wolf Wolfensberger
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martha A. Field
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780674036840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngaging in sex, becoming parents, raising children: these are among the most personal decisions we make, and for people with mental retardation, these decisions are consistently challenged, regulated, and outlawed. This book is a comprehensive study of the American legal doctrines and social policies, past and present, that have governed procreation and parenting by persons with mental retardation. It argues persuasively that people with retardation should have legal authority to make their own decisions. Despite the progress of the normalization movement, which has moved so many people with mental retardation into the mainstream since the 1960s, negative myths about reproduction and child rearing among this population persist. Martha Field and Valerie Sanchez trace these prejudices to the eugenics movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show how misperceptions have led to inconsistent and discriminatory outcomes when third parties seek to make birth control or parenting decisions for people with mental retardation. They also explore the effect of these decisions on those they purport to protect. Detailed, thorough, and just, their book is a sustained argument for reform of the legal practices and social policies it describes.
Author: William I. Fraser
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunicating with Normal and Retarded Children explores the way in which normal children acquire language and the mistakes they make. It aims to trace the common growth between professions in understanding of normal language development and the retarded person's language and to encourage research, particularly of an interdisciplinary kind.
Author: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the sorrow and the spiritual rewards the author experienced as the mother of a retarded child.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2002-08-09
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0309083230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurrent estimates suggest that between one and three percent of people living in the United States will receive a diagnosis of mental retardation. Mental retardation, a condition characterized by deficits in intellectual capabilities and adaptive behavior, can be particularly hard to diagnose in the mild range of the disability. The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides income support and medical benefits to individuals with cognitive limitations who experience significant problems in their ability to perform work and may therefore be in need of governmental support. Addressing the concern that SSA's current procedures are consistent with current scientific and professional practices, this book evaluates the process used by SSA to determine eligibility for these benefits. It examines the adequacy of the SSA definition of mental retardation and its current procedures for assessing intellectual capabilities, discusses adaptive behavior and its assessment, advises on ways to combine intellectual and adaptive assessment to provide a complete profile of an individual's capabilities, and clarifies ways to differentiate mental retardation from other conditions.
Author: Robert B. Edgerton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780674568860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains 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.
Author: R. C. Scheerenberger
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 344
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