President's Committee on Mental Retardation: The Decisive Decade (MR 70)

摘要

This report concisely reviews the areas in which the Committee has focused its attention in 1970. It also previews promises of the coming decade for preventive measures and amelioration of the national problem of mental retardation. The report highlights improvements in residential care and the breakthrough in research; it also outlines the need for further advancement in programs including education, the delivery of services, and continued behavioral and biomedical research for the mentally retarded. Among the programs the Committee will focus its attention upon during the coming months will be a work conference on the reexamination of intelligence testing and classification procedures; a study of states' systems for delivery of services to the mentally retarded; and a report on the constitutional rights and guarantees of the mentally retarded.