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Twenty-Two Years - Causes and Consequences of Mental Retardation (Hardcover, New)
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Twenty-Two Years - Causes and Consequences of Mental Retardation (Hardcover, New)
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Twenty-Two Years presents the results of a unique longitudinal
study of the first 22 years in the lives of more than 200 young
people with varying degrees of mental retardation. By following
their paths through available services, job histories, leisure
activities, friendships, and marriages, the authors provide
objective information about the quality of life of young people
with mental retardation. The book makes a unique contribution by
determining what factors in childhood predict who will and who will
not require mental retardation services and, for those who
disappear from services, why some fare better than others. Most
important, the results help answer a question that haunts parents:
"What will happen when my child grows up?" This study expands on an
internationally acclaimed clinical and epidemiological study of
children with mental retardation published in 1970. It provides
prevalence rates by severity of mental retardation, gender, social
class, and family stability, and shows how these change over time.
The authors confirm the central role of biomedical factors in the
etiology of severe mental retardation. For the etiology of mild
mental retardation, the book examines the relative contributions of
biomedical and intergenerational genetic factors as well as
psychosocial adversity. The book should be of interest to a broad
range of clinicians, researchers, and students, as well as the
families of people with mental retardation, and it will serve as a
model for future epidemiological and follow-up research.
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