Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Eugenics
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INTRODUCTION Those working today with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are often not aware of the dark side of our history concerning the treatment of this population and why we, some 150 years ago, made institutions or state schools for them (1). Maybe we have forgotten or chosen to forget something that we were not taught in school, and it is likely that our teachers did not know it either.
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