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Booth, Tony – 1982
This booklet, one of 16 designed for use in an Open University Course on the education of handicapped children in the United Kingdom, focuses on ways in which a disability is affected by social factors. Effects of geographic, economic, and cultural conditions are examined. Clinical and sociological perspectives of mental retardation are compared…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
