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PROBLEMS
OF MENТАL RETARDATION




There
is real cause for concern about the possibility that the mentally
retarded may become a forgotten group...


For
the mentally retarded are a group whose disability may never lift a
single one of their number from the shadows of obscurity.


Intelligence,
a necessary, if not exclusive ingredient of fame is denied to them
either at birth or early in life.


No
prominent figure stands among them to dramatize their cause before
the world.

The
blind can point to a Helen Keller, distinguished writer; the deaf to
a Beethoven, a composer - genius; the epileptic to a Julius Caesar,
soldier and statesman; the poliomyelitic to a Franklin D. Roosevelt,
a nation's president and wartime leader.


But
these individuals had the gift of great intelligence which reduced
their physical or emotional disability to the status of an incidental
factor of their lives.


The
mentally retarded have no such source of inspiration and challenge.

They
cannot point to one of their number and say, "See, what
extraordinary good he has done for humanity!"


It
would seem to be their inescapable fate to be obscure.

But
the cause of the intellectually subnormal must be championed by
individuals not of their group; else they will be forgotten in the
fight for economic survival, for a chance at liberty and the pursuit
of happiness."

Changing
Concepts in Mental Retardation, p. 14.

Dixon,
Illinois 1967-68.