The Mentally Subnormal
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by Margaret Adams. Heinemann. 25s. Work with the mentally subnormal has always demanded a high degree of skill and the failure to recognise this reflects society's attitude to the handicap. This attitude is fortunately in process of being modified and Margaret Adams is to be congratulated on bringing together a team of people who can speak with such authority of the rewarding nature of work with the mentally subnormal and of the demands it makes on skill and initiative. The
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