David Earl's "History of Intellectual Disabilities in Australia" list.
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Notes: This Association was founded prior to 1950. By the publication of their first Annual Report, for 1951-52, they had six operating branches.
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Notes: An amateur history of Koomarri, a "centre" for "mentally handicapped" children established in Canberra by their parents in 1952.
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Notes: Koomarri was a "centre" for "mentally handicapped" children established in Canberra by their parents in 1952.
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Notes: Koomarri was a "centre" for "mentally handicapped" children established in Canberra by their parents in 1952.
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Notes: These reports are useful.
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Notes: J. D. Van Pelt was previously the editor of Australian Children Limited, and an advocate for "mentally retarded" people through the 1960s and 1970s. I beleive he had a child who attended Koomarri.
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Notes: J. D. Van Pelt was previously the editor of Australian Children Limited, and an advocate for "mentally retarded" people through the 1960s and 1970s. I beleive he had a child who attended Koomarri.
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Notes: This nationwide report was prepared by pre-eminent experts including: Thelma McConnel (Principal of Bowen House School) and J. D. Van Pelt.
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Notes: A brief history of this group.
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Notes: Reg Ellery worked at Kew Asylum in Melbourne in the 1930s and includes a fascinating chapter on conditions in the "cottages" for "mental defectives."
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Notes: This parent group, established in 1951, is better known for operating the Oakleigh Retarded Children's Centre.
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Notes: This (very) occasionally mentions "special" education.
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Caritas
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Notes: This is the newsletter of the Brothers of St. John of God, who ran "Training Centres" for "subnormal boys" in NSW, Vic and NZ.
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Notes: This group was founded in 1952 by parents with "slow learning" children.
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Notes: Alexander Kennedy was commissioned by the Victorian Government to review mental health care in the state. His report led to the establishment of the Mental Hygiene Authority headed by Eric Cunningham Dax.
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Notes: An amateur history of this Branch.
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Notes: Eric Cunningham Dax was head of the Victorian Mental Hygiene Authority. Reviewing services in Tasmania, he breifly touches upon the treatment of "mental deficency" in that state.
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Notes: E. Morris Miller was director of the (Tasmanian) Psychological Clinic and a member of that State's Mental Deficiency Board.
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Notes: A standard school psychology work.
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Notes: Organised by the Education Minister, R. J. Heffron, after agitation by the NSW Subnormal Children's Welfare Association, this group included G. E. Phillips.
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Notes: Several prominent public health experts discuss "mental deficiency" during this commission, held in 1925.
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Notes: June Epstein (Guest) wrote this book in 1970, reflecting upon her experiences of mothering her "mentally handicapped" son, Carey, born in 1952. Epstein eventually decided to have Carey institutionalised in Kew Cottages. In 1957, Epstein was instrumental in the foundation of the Kew Cottages Parents' Association. The chapters on Carey are fairly standard stuff, but later chapters on the "Parents" are very revealing. Her papers are held by the library, and a diary she kept before sending Carey to the Cottages is an interesting counter-view to this book.
lessJune Epstein (Guest) wrote this book in 1970, reflecting upon her experiences of mothering her "mentally handicapped" son, Carey, born in 1952. Epstein eventually decided to have Carey institutionalised in Kew Cottages. In 1957, Epstein was instrumental in the foundation of the Kew Cottage... more
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Notes: A foundational document of Koomarri.
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Notes: This is a very interesting book.
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Notes: An amateur history of the Cottages.
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Notes: McIntyre appears to be a statistician. I haven't been able to find much about him.
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Notes: H. T. Parker was getting on when he wrote this. In 1949, his claim that "the THREAT of mental defciency to our national life is by common consent regarded as serious" was beginning to be challenged.
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Notes: Schonell House was the showpiece of the QLD Subnormal Children's Welfare Association. It was named after Fred Schonell, the Association's President, and Dean of Education (later Vice-Chancellor) of The University of Queensland.
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Notes: This is a brochure for the Queensland Subnormal Children's Welfare Association, founded in the 1950s.
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Notes: Schonell was a specialist in "backward" children. He later founded the QLD Subnormal Children's Welfare Association.
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Notes: A very informative report which details every major provision of care in Australia.
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Notes: This booklet was prepared for parents of "mentally handicapped" children.
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Notes: This is very interesting study by Fred Schonell was widely reported by the popular press.
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Notes: Eric Cunningham Dax was head of the Victorian Mental Hygiene Authority.
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Notes: Allan Stoller produced a 1955 Report of the Mental Health Facilities and Needs of Australia."
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Notes: The Newsletter of the QSCWA, headed by Fred Schonell.
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Notes: The Racial Hygiene Association of NSW agitated widely for the establishment of a "mentally deficient colony" in the 1920s and 30s. It later changed its name to Family Planning NSW.
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Notes: Millicent Preston Stanley was a NSW politician and member of the Feminist Club. Here, she raves about the damage the hereditary taint of "deficiency" is causing the nation.
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Notes: G. E. Phillips was in charge of the Glenfield "Special" School in NSW. Here he makes an early challenge to the doctrine of the constancy of intelligence.
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Notes: A standard school psychology work.
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Notes: Minda Home for Weak-Minded Children was founded in Adelaide in 1898, along the lines of a Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute. It has a fascinating history.
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Notes: E. Morris Miller was director of the (Tasmanian) Psychological Clinic and a member of that State's Mental Deficiency Board. Here he is heavily influenced by the work of Richard Berry.
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Notes: E. Morris Miller was director of the (Tasmanian) Psychological Clinic and a member of that State's Mental Deficiency Board. Here he is heavily influenced by the work of Richard Berry.
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Notes: This is a fascinating discussion of the "problem" of "mental deficiency." David Welsh's section on "The Danger of Feeble-mindedness to the Individual, to the State, and to the Race" is often misquoted as being penned by Mackellar.
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Notes: Mary Dendy is dealt with in detail by Mark Jackson in "The borderland of imbecility" (2000).
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Notes: Ross Jones has recently published an article on this in Australian Historical Studies (2009, 40/1, pp.63-78).
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Notes: Alan Carroll was a quack. He founded the Australian Anthropological Society, and the Child Study Association. He published the racist journal the Science of Man (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn356198) which published an article by Richard Berry. According to Michael Roe, he was also influential upon Richard Arthur. His papers are held in the AAS Archives.
lessAlan Carroll was a quack. He founded the Australian Anthropological Society, and the Child Study Association. He published the racist journal the Science of Man (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn356198) which published an article by Richard Berry. According to Michael Roe, he was also influential upon Ri... more
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Notes: According to Ann Curthoys, Paul Popenoe was admired by Marion Piddington. The papers of Albert Piddington, Marion's husband, are held by the Library, and include a letter from Sigmund Freud to Marion.
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Notes: Seminal work on the supposedly hereditary nature of "mental deficiency."
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Notes: This fascinating book was held in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library.
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Notes: Cunningham published a number of articles in association with the Council of Mental Hygiene.
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Notes: This is a second Child Study Association, not to be confused with the one founded by Alan Carroll.
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Notes: The MJA (20/1/1915 p.102) reported that "This work is interesting to the educationalist, showing the newer spirit in the training of teachers."
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Notes: Richard Berry was very influential in Melbourne and instituted a long eugenic campaign against "mental deficiency."
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Notes: Richard Berry was very influential in Melbourne and instituted a long eugenic campaign against "mental deficiency."
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Notes: Richard Berry was very influential in Melbourne and instituted a long eugenic campaign against "mental deficiency." This was his last major work before leaving to work as Medical Superintendent of Stoke Park Colony, Bristol.
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Notes: Richard Berry was very influential in Melbourne and instituted a long eugenic campaign against "mental deficiency."
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Notes: Richard Berry was very influential in Melbourne and instituted a long eugenic campaign against "mental deficiency."
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Notes: Charles Mackellar delivered a paper at this conference which became the foundation of his larger work on Mental Deficiency (http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2364966).
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Notes: Very influential in Australia.
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Notes: Harvey Sutton was involved in psychology and eugenics for almost 50 years.
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Notes: Stanley Porteus is a fascinating man, who worked closely with Richard Berry, and later at Vineland Training Institute in New Jersey (incidentally, the institution to which Pearl Buck's daughter Carol was committed). Porteus seriously plays down the racist nature of his earlier work in this autobiography.
lessStanley Porteus is a fascinating man, who worked closely with Richard Berry, and later at Vineland Training Institute in New Jersey (incidentally, the institution to which Pearl Buck's daughter Carol was committed). Porteus seriously plays down the racist nature of his earlier work in this autobiogr... more
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Notes: Film footage from this "study" was eventually turned into the Hollywood exploitation movie "The Blonde Captive."
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Notes: From the early 1960s, voluntary groups across Australia began opening "sheltered workshops" for "mentally handicapped" adults.
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Notes: The NSWCMH, an umbrella group of smaller organisations, usefully lists all the facilities in the state.
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Notes: The NSWCMH was an umbrella group of smaller non-governmental organisations involved with intellectual disability.
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Notes: The NSWCMH was an umbrella group of smaller non-governmental organisations involved with intellectual disability.
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Notes: The NSWCMH, an umbrella group of smaller organisations, usefully lists all the facilities in the state.
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Notes: This booklet for parents was produced in Canada. The Victorian Mental Hygiene Authority based a pamphlet of their own upon it.
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Notes: A handbook for parents based on the Canadian pamphlet, here: http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn632356
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Notes: Pearl Buck was the American author of "The Child Who Never Grew", often cited by voluntary groups after its publication in the early 1950s.
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Notes: Richard Berry was very influential in Melbourne and instituted a long eugenic campaign against "mental deficiency."
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Notes: Richard Berry was very influential in Melbourne and instituted a long eugenic campaign against "mental deficiency."
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Notes: Richard Berry was very influential in Melbourne and instituted a long eugenic campaign against "mental deficiency."
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Notes: Stanley Porteus is a fascinating man, who worked closely with Richard Berry, and later at Vineland Training Institute in New Jersey (incidentally, the institution to which Pearl Buck's daughter Carol was committed). This was the first work in which his ideas about race and intelligence were seriously challenged by other psychologists.
lessStanley Porteus is a fascinating man, who worked closely with Richard Berry, and later at Vineland Training Institute in New Jersey (incidentally, the institution to which Pearl Buck's daughter Carol was committed). This was the first work in which his ideas about race and intelligence were seriousl... more
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Notes: Minda Home for Weak-Minded Children was founded in Adelaide in 1898, along the lines of a Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute. By the 1960s it had moved far from that model, and was considering converting its "farm colony" into a sheltered workshop.
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Notes: McIntyre is the author of "The Standardization of Intelligence Tests in Australia."
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Notes: Eric Cunningham Dax was head of the Victorian Mental Hygiene Authority.
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Notes: Very useful guide, part of a series.
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Notes: General guide to charities in Melbourne and Victoria.
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Notes: Angela Booth (married to Dr. James Booth) was a founding member of the Eugenics Society of Victoria. She agitated widely against prostitution and venereal disease and, in the early 1920s, was involved with the Mental Defectives Colony Association.
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Notes: Funding for sheltered workshops included a 2 pound to 1 pound subsidy for attached hostels, a very attractive option for community groups trying to establish their own "residentials" in the early 1960s.
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Notes: An early attempt to standardise the Binet tests in Australia.
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Notes: Although this group was not officially incorporated until 1965 they were active from at least 1962.
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Notes: "Child of the Shadows" was a term often employed by the Victorian Helping Hand Association in the 1950s. I wonder where it originates?
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Notes: J. D. van Pelt was previously the editor of "Australian Children Limited," the newsletter of the Australian Council for the Mentally Handicapped. His first name was actually John: see "Parent Groups for the Mentally Retarded in the United States."
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Notes: This is a fascinating comparison of America's National Association for Retarded Children with its Australian equivalent, the Australian Council for the Mentally Handicapped. van Pelt has an extremely pessimistic assesment of the Australian acheivements.
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Notes: This book was sold to "country parents" who visited Schonell House in Brisbane.
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Notes: The Slow Learning Children's Group was very influential in WA, operating the Hawkevale Farm Colony, and later the Irrabeena Diagnostic Centre.
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Notes: Nulsen Haven was operated by the Mentally Incurable Children's Association of W.A.
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Notes: Majorie Tipping was the wife of E. W. Tipping, who published a remarkable expose about Kew Cottages in 1953. In this interview, Marjorie reveals their own son had an intellectual disability.
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