A Rehabilitation Programme for Certified Mental Defectives

50,000 outside the Law. An Examination of the Treatment of Those Certified as Mental Defectives

Observations on the Training of Idiots and Low-Grade Imbeciles

or almost impossible to find vacancies in Certified Institutions for low grade or troublesome defectives. Mental Hospitals and Public Assistance Institutions are unwillingly obliged to receive these cases. Local Authorities are well aware of the harm and hardships which ensue from the retention of this type of patient in Public Assistance Institutions. The Board of Control require that Mental D...

Mental Retardation, Poverty and Community Based Rehabilitation

A person with moderate mental retardation would, in a western country, be "diagnosed" early on in life. Consequently, such a child is likely to be sent for special education. Given the high level of job requirements, such a person is unlikely to be employed in the open market later in life. Mental retardation is one of the most frequent disabilities in most studies, mental retardation is found ...

An Investigation into the Mental State of the Parents and Sibs of 1,050 Mentally Defective Persons *A paper read at the Seventh International Genetical Congress, Edinburgh August, 1939.

were different. Even if they had not been, the results would still not have been strictly comparable. Penrose himself says that " great care is necessary when comparing the results of one study on mental deficiency with those of another, for in practice both are beset by formidable difficulties." Formidable indeed have been those of the present analysis, so without attempting any comparisons le...

Mental Inefficiency and Crime

to be found in these pages the latest facts and figures as to what is actually happening but they also reveal how the problem is presenting itself to those most closely at grips with it, and what is the angle from which it is being approached. From the report before us we learn that so far as the working of Section J of the Mental Deficiency Act is concerned, the position is distinctly improvin...