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Labeling the Mentally Retarded

Clinical and Social System Perspectives on Mental Retardation

By: Jane R. Mercer

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Labeling the Mentally Retarded

Clinical and Social System Perspectives on Mental Retardation

By: Jane R. Mercer

This eight-year study of an American city traces the answer to the question "Who is retarded?" by analyzing the labeling process in a large number of community agencies. Data for the study are drawn from a representative sample of 7,000 persons under fifty years of age who were tested ans screened for "symptoms" of mental retardation. The author finds that that schools label more persons as mentally retarded than any other agency and share their labels more widely with others in the community. Relying on IQ test scores for diagnosis, schools place many persons with scores above 70 and with no physical disabilities in the role of retardate. The author contends that both the statistical model of "normal" and the unicultural viewpoint of educators and clinicians work to the disadvantage of the poor and the ethnic minorities. Given the opportunity, many persons demonstrate by their ability to cope with the problems in other areas of life that they are not comprehensively incompetent. The author makes serval policy recommendations. First, she suggests lowering the IQ score cutoff point used by schools in determining who shall be labeled as retarded. Second, she recommends that the clinicians use the two-dimensional definition of retardation proposed by the American Association of Mental Deficiency, subnormality in both intellectual performance and adaptive behavior. Third, she concludes that pluralistic assessment procedures must be employed to take into account cultural biases in IQ tests designed to measure cognitive skills. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

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0520311507

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England

An Oxford Archaeological Guide to Sites from Earliest Times to AD 1600

By: Timothy Darvill,Jane Timby,Paul Stamper

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England

An Oxford Archaeological Guide to Sites from Earliest Times to AD 1600

By: Timothy Darvill,Jane Timby,Paul Stamper

Travelling around England is in many senses a journey back in time. On all sides, and sometimes even under the road or footpath itself, there are fragments of the ancient past side by side with the clutter of the modern world. Medieval villages, castles, ancient churches, and Roman villas arecommonplace and take us back to the time of Christ. Far older, yet equally abundant, are the barrows, hillforts, stone circles, camps, standing stones, trackways, and other relics of prehistoric times that have survived for several thousand years.This Guide is all about these ancient remains: the prehistoric, Roman, and medieval sites which date from the time between the first appearance of people in what we now call England during the last Ice Age and the end of medieval times around 1600 AD.

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528

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0192841017

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Animals in Celtic Life and Myth

By: Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green

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Animals in Celtic Life and Myth

By: Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green

Green examines the intimate relationship between the Celts and animals, covering their crucial role in the Celtic economy, in hunting and warfare, in art and literature and in religion and ritual. The book covers the period between 800 BC and 400 AD.

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312

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Psychology Press

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0415050308

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9780415050302

Nanotechnology and the Environment

By: Kathleen Sellers,Christopher Mackay,Lynn L. Bergeson,Stephen R. Clough,Marilyn Hoyt,Julie Chen,Kim Henry,Jane Hamblen

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Nanotechnology and the Environment

By: Kathleen Sellers,Christopher Mackay,Lynn L. Bergeson,Stephen R. Clough,Marilyn Hoyt,Julie Chen,Kim Henry,Jane Hamblen

Nanomaterials' unique properties offer revolutionary means to optimize a variety of products, including electronics, textiles, paintings and coatings, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products. However, these same properties mean that nanoscale materials can behave differently in the human body and the environment than conventional materials.

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296

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CRC Press

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0203881079

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Addressing Issues of Mental Health in Schools through the Arts

Teachers and Music Therapists Working Together

By: Nick Clough,Jane Tarr

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Addressing Issues of Mental Health in Schools through the Arts

Teachers and Music Therapists Working Together

By: Nick Clough,Jane Tarr

This book outlines how teachers, music / arts therapists and teacher trainers have engaged in participatory action research to facilitate regular group music listening and improvisational music making with children and young people in their classrooms, highlighting its impact in addressing issues of mental health and providing social and emotional access to learning. The book includes examples of classroom practice, evidencing how safe, inclusive and interactive music making can stimulate experiences that alter children and young people’s moods, enhance their social skills and enable their connectivity with each other and with learning. It describes participatory action research approaches that support inter professional learning between teachers and music / arts therapists. Five narrative accounts of classroom episodes provide a basis for continuing reflection and critical theorising about young people’s relational health and sensory engagement. The book explores outcomes from non-verbal dialogic interaction and attachment focussed practices. It advocates new forms of rights respecting professionalism. Providing new frameworks with which to enhance the wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people in classroom settings, the book will be important reading for researchers and students in the fields of inclusive education, music / arts therapy and teacher training. The contents are significant for practitioners looking to support children and young people’s recovery and reconnections in the classroom.

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Routledge

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042962686X

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Labeling the Mentally Retarded

Clinical and Social System Perspectives on Mental Retardation

By: Jane R. Mercer

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Clinical and Social System Perspectives on Mental Retardation

By: Jane R. Mercer

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Labeling the Mentally Retarded

Labeling the Mentally Retarded

England

England

Animals in Celtic Life and Myth

Animals in Celtic Life and Myth

Nanotechnology and the Environment

Nanotechnology and the Environment

Addressing Issues of Mental Health in Schools through the Arts

Addressing Issues of Mental Health in Schools through the Arts

Labeling the Mentally Retarded

Labeling the Mentally Retarded

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