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Ameliorating mental disability: questioning retardation
- Authors:
- BAUMEISTER Alfred A., (ed.)
- Publisher:
- AldineTransaction
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 417p.
- Place of publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ
A text book in which mental retardation is viewed as a behavioural problem that can be treated. The aim is to help students and practitioners to apply research findings and theory to their work. Chapters, by experts in the fields of medicine, special education, speech and hearing, and psychology, cover a wide range of topics. They include: definition, diagnosis and classification of mental retardation; the multidisciplinary approach; perceptual, conceptual and psycholinguistic evaluation; personality evaluation, the role of environmental factors in the treatment of institutionalised mentally challenged people; psychotherapy; learning abilities; programmed instruction; vocational preparation; mainstream school programmes; training care workers; and counselling parents.