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Special Education for the Mildly Retarded—Is Much of it Justifiable?
Abstract
In lieu of an abstract to this article, I would like to preface it by saying this is my swan song for now—as I leave special education and this country for probably the next two years. I have been honored to be a past president of The Council for Exceptional Children. I have loyally supported and promoted special classes for the educable mentally retarded for most of the last 20 years, but with growing disaffection. In my view, much of our past and present practices are morally and educationally wrong. We have been living at the mercy of general educators who have referred their problem children to us. And we have been generally ill prepared and ineffective in educating these children. Let us stop being pressured into continuing and expanding a special education program that we know now to be undesirable for many of the children we are dedicated to serve.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dunn, L. M.
- Venue
- Exceptional Children
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1968-09
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-22
- ISSN
- 0014-4029 (ISSN-L)
- 2163-5560
- OpenAlex
- W2791105386
- Cited by
- 1,306
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 26.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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