Mental Retardation in the 21st Century

by Wehmeyer, Michael L.; Patton, James R.

• ISBN13: 9780890798195
• ISBN10: 0890798192
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Pro Ed

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xi
Contributors	xxi
SECTION I Family Issues
Family Support: Retrospective and Prospective	3	(16)
H. Rutherford Turnbull III
Ann P. Turnbull
The Parent Movement in Mental Retardation	19	(18)
Alan Abeson
Sharon Davis
SECTION II Education Issues
Early Childhood Intervention: Evolution of a System	37	(22)
Michael J. Guralnick
Transition and Youth with Mental Retardation: Past, Present, and Future	59	(12)
Robert E. Cimera
Frank R. Rusch
Educating Students with Mild Mental Retardation	71	(20)
James R. Patton
Edward A. Polloway
Tom E. C. Smith
Serving Persons with Severe and Profound Disabilities: A Work in Progress	91	(24)
Doug Guess
SECTION III Employment and Residential Issues
Supported Employment in 2000: Changing the Locus of Control from Agency to Consumer	115	(36)
Paul Wehman
John Bricout
John Kregel
Where We Are Now: Perspectives on Employment of Persons with Mental Retardation	151	(14)
William E. Kiernan
From Unit D to the Community: A Dream to Fulfill	165	(16)
Jay Klein
Jeffrey L. Strully
SECTION IV Issues in Psychology
Positive Behavior Supports	181	(16)
Robert H. Horner
Psychopharmacology and Mental Retardation	197	(14)
Steven Reiss
Health Conditions Contributing to Problem Behavior Among People with Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities	211	(24)
Craig H. Kennedy
Travis Thompson
SECTION V Issues in Medicine and Health
Genetics and Gene Therapies	235	(16)
Hugo W. Moser
Health Promotion and Disability Prevention: The Case for Personal Responsibility and Independence	251	(14)
Deborah E. Cohen
Community-Based and Managed Health Care	265	(16)
Allen C. Crocker
Toward a Brighter Future for Persons with Down Syndrome	281	(18)
Siegfried M. Pueschel
SECTION VI Life Span Issues
Communication, Assistive Technology, and Mental Retardation	299	(16)
Mary Ann Romski
Rose A. Sevcik
Riding the Third Wave: Self-Determination and Self-Advocacy in the 21st Century	315	(20)
Michael L. Wehmeyer
Hank Bersani, Jr.
Raymond Gagne
Three Decades of Quality of Life	335	(24)
Robert L. Schalock
SECTION VII Policy Issues
Transforming Service Delivery Systems in the States	359	(20)
David Braddock
Richard Hemp
Susan Parish
Social Constructions of Mental Retardation: Impersonal Histories and the Hope for Personal Futures	379	(16)
J. David Smith
Criminal Justice and Mental Retardation: A Journalist's Notebook	395	(40)
Robert Perske
EPILOGUES
Newly in Pursuit of an Old Philosophy: Rebalancing Liberty, Equality, and Community	413	(18)
H. Rutherford Turnbull III
Ann P. Turnbull
Mental Retardation in the 21st Century	431	(4)
Gunnar Dybwad
Author Index	435	(8)
Subject Index	443