Developmental disabilities: opportunities for social workers

Autor: Charles R. Horejsi
Rok vydání: 1979
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Zdroj: Social Work.
ISSN: 1545-6846
DOI: 10.1093/sw/24.1.40
Popis: Charles R. Horejsi, DSW, is Professor of Social Work, University of Montana, Missoula. A version of this article was presented at the Fifth Biennial NASW Professional Symposium, San Diego, California, November 1977. The social work profession as a is officially defined in P.L. 94-103. In whole has demonstrated little concern general, it refers to disabilities attrib with the field of mental retardation utable to mental retardation, cerebral and developmental disabilities, allowpalsy, epilepsy, autism, and certain ing itself to be represented by a relaother conditions closely related to re tively small number of standard-beartardation in terms of intellectual and ers. In the early 1960s, Dybwad adaptive problems and the types of expressed his dismay over how slow services needed, the Child Welfare League of America
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