The Florida Plan for Comprehensive Action to Combat Mental Retardation. A Report to the Governor [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 5194626
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Florida State Interagency Committee on Mental Retardation Planning, Tallahassee
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED023230
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1965
- 112 p.
- Summary:
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Information is provided on Florida's mental retardation facilities and programs, and specific recommendations and guidelines are given for the expansion and improvement of services. The following are specified: basic principles for the care of the mentally retarded; recommendations for legislative action, training centers, research, community action, and other public and private agencies and institutions; the development of state residential institutions; the nature of mental retardation, its causes, characteristics, degrees, and prevalence; and prevention, case finding, diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment. Also detailed are community and residential services; an enriched program of special education for the retarded, including training, rehabilitation, and employment; recommendations for research centers; a new legal concept of the retarded and dissemination of information to opinion-making groups; coordination of services on federal, state, and local levels; and commitments to needed areas of action. In all, 131 recommendations are made. Seven appendixes and a 39-item bibliography are provided. (BA)
- Notes:
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- Availability: Division of Mental Retardation, 900 South Bronough Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32304.
- Sponsoring Agency: Public Health Service (DHEW), Rockville, MD.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Agency Cooperation
- Community Programs
- Coordination
- Exceptional Child Education
- Identification
- Mental Retardation
- Planning Commissions
- Program Development
- Public Relations
- Research And Development Centers
- Residential Schools
- Services
- State Action
- State Programs
- State Schools
- Vocational Rehabilitation
- Florida
- Other authors/contributors:
- Florida State Interagency Committee on Mental Retardation Planning, Tallahassee
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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