Mental Defectives

Mental Defectives
Author: Martin W. Barr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1904
Genre: Intellectual disability
ISBN:

The Raising of Intelligence

The Raising of Intelligence
Author: H. H. Spitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136562079

The history of attempts to raise the intelligence of mentally retarded individuals is wrought with controversy. Spanning the years from 1800 to the present, this book offers a critical review of the methods and philosophy behind these efforts. A fascinating contribution to the long-standing debate on the malleability of intelligence and the influence of heredity and environment.

Inventing the Feeble Mind

Inventing the Feeble Mind
Author: James Trent
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199396205

Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual and social limitations, has shaped meaning, services, and policies in United States history.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1480
Release: 1912
Genre: Education
ISBN:

No Right to Be Idle

No Right to Be Idle
Author: Sarah F. Rose
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1469624907

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor market, reflecting the fact that Americans had long viewed productivity as a spectrum that varied by age, gender, and ability. But as Sarah F. Rose explains in No Right to Be Idle, a perfect storm of public policies, shifting family structures, and economic changes effectively barred workers with disabilities from mainstream workplaces and simultaneously cast disabled people as morally questionable dependents in need of permanent rehabilitation to achieve "self-care" and "self-support." By tracing the experiences of policymakers, employers, reformers, and disabled people caught up in this epochal transition, Rose masterfully integrates disability history and labor history. She shows how people with disabilities lost access to paid work and the status of "worker--a shift that relegated them and their families to poverty and second-class economic and social citizenship. This has vast consequences for debates about disability, work, poverty, and welfare in the century to come.

American Special Education

American Special Education
Author: Gerard Giordano
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780820486956

This book is an account of the epic struggle for special education in America's schools. It chronicles the actions of community leaders, families, caregivers, instructors, physicians, scientists, lawyers, judges, lawmakers, businesspersons, journalists, social activists, and persons with disabilities. It details the creation of facilities in which special learners would be safe, productive, independent, respected, and self-fulfilled. The book discusses techniques for assessing the presence, scope, and etiology of disabilities. Finally, American Special Education describes novel, sometimes expensive, and frequently controversial interventions, and places each development within the remarkable confluence of social and political circumstances that propelled the transformation of special education.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1052
Release: 1923
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Mind and Body Spaces

Mind and Body Spaces
Author: Ruth Butler
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780415179027

Mind and Body Spaces highlights new international research from the US, Canada, Britain and Australia on bodily impairment, mental health and disabled peoples social worlds. International contributors discuss a variety of current issues including the historical conceptions of the body and behavior as well as masculinity and sexuality.