Institutionalization and Its Alternatives for Mentally Retarded People in the United States
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In the United States, "Amazingly little nationwide data [are] available from which [ mental retardation] program trends can be extrapolated and implications drawn.. .decisions on the allocation of public resources are made by national and state policy-makers based on little more than the most rudimentary assumptions about what is actually happening in the field" (The President's Committee on Mental Retardation, 1976). Programming decisions on behalf of this nation's developmentally disabled need a firmer foundation in fact. As recently as ten years ago, that foundation might have been provided by focusing exclusively on institutionalized mentally retarded people; but that will no longer do. Using data that were complete only through 1971, Butterfield (1976)observed:
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