… and mentally handicapped people

On sterilising severely mentally handicapped people.

At the time of writing, the House of Lords in England had not ruled in the case ofJeanette-a seventeen-year-old with allegedly the skills of at most a five or six-year-old whose mother and gynaecologist wished to perform probably irreversible sterilisation by an operation to tie her fallopian tubes (1). Whatever the legal decision, the ethical issues underlying decisions of this kind deserve an...

When the Mentally Handicapped Paint

Teamwork for the Mentally Handicapped

Proposals for a new, community-based service for the mentally handicapped.

Abuse of mentally handicapped adults.

Education of Mentally Handicapped Children

This is an excellent text book for teachers and other professional workers concerned with the education of the mentally handicapped. It deals mainly with "special class" teaching which is equivalent to teaching in schools and classes for educationally subnormal pupils in this country. It would also however have particular value for teachers of older children and adults in Occupation Centres. A ...