The Dynamics of Mental Retardation
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Perhaps I can best introduce this discussion of the dynamics of mental retardation with some personal reminiscences. It is now 28 years ago that I first began to work in an institution for the mentally retarded, at Letchworth Village in New York, at that time one of the most distinguished of the institutions for the retarded in the U.S.A. — distinguished particularly because it had a large and well staffed research department. Whenever I get somewhat discouraged these days with the slow progress we are making in our work, I merely need to think back to 1938, and the tremendous change that has occurred quickly restores my optimism.
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