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Mental Retardation and Crime The vast majority of people with mental retardation never break the law. Nevertheless, mentally retarded people may be disproportionately represented in America’s persons. Although people with mental retardation constitute somewhere between 2.5 and 3 percent of U.S. population, experts estimate they may constitute between 2 and 10 percent of the prison population. The disproportionate number of persons with mental retardation in the incarcerated populatio......
Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader (Part-II) The second equally influential study was The Kalliakak Family; A Study in the Heredity of Feeble Mindedness by Henry Goddard, 1912. Inspired by the new Mendelism, the study traced back six generations of the family of a young institutionalized woman and found an appalling amount of defectiveness. Yet there was also information about “a good family of the same name.” it emerged, of course, that the forebear met “......
The causes of mental retardation can be divided into biomedical, social behavioral and educational risk factors that interact during the life of an individual and /or across generations from parent to child. Biomedical factors are related to biologic process, such as genetic disorders or nutrition. Social factors are related to social and family interaction, such as child stimulation and adult responsiveness. Behavioral factors are related to harmful behaviors, such as mental substance abu......
INDIVIDUALS WITH MILD MENTAL RETARDATION (Formerly referred to as educable): Are likely to need only intermittent to limited support; Typically do not “look” different from their non-disabled peers; Often have only mild or moderate developmental delays, except in academics, which is often the major area of deficit; Therefore, they are often not until they enter the school setting where their cognitive disability is most apparent; In Minnesota, students with mild MR spend most ......