Mental Retarded Research

"There are 38,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities housed in institutions nationwide" and "At last count, 715,000 people were residing with caregivers age 60 and older", while these are shocking statistics, they embody very little sustenance to Bauer's argument that the word "retard" should be removed from society. Even though Bauer's utilization of a personal story within her disorderly arranged arguments including a heartwarming introduction provide her with credibility as an author, she obliterates her claim as it is solely based on her emotional

In another article, “The Functionalist View of Special Education and Disability: Deconstructing the Conventional Knowledge Tradition,” it discusses how Special Education is problematic, due to professional models, practices, and tools that are created from functionalists assumptions and theories, which have been proven to be ineffective, and sometimes harmful (Skrtic, 2005). This article is a great framework for how society has created the stigma of individuals with health, and physical needs, to the term, disabilities. For example, Skrtic explains how, Special Education was founded in part, by students who were removed, and contained due to inefficient organizations and defective students (Skrtic, 2005). Those students who didn’t fit into societies norms, were considered to be deviant, and then labeled as having a disability, or worse, labeled

Bauer’s argument is based on emotion which makes it hard for the reader to follow. It is solely an emotional essay. The writer seems to have a very personal stance on the subject. She has raised a daughter with Down syndrome and she has tried so hard to shelter her from the hurtful word “retard.” Emotional essays provide no new ways of looking at the problem. Bauer’s argument was mostly a lot of finger pointing at the movie industry and their lack of compassion when using the word “retard.” Furthermore, the writer expresses society’s lack of compassion for the intellectually disabled community. The writer demonstrates examples of people’s use of this word as a means for expressing careless acts. Bauer states, “A clerk in a store apologizes for being "such a retard" when she can't find an item for me. Ouch. Kids at the mall call one another "you big retard." Ouch. A friend tells a long, involved story at my dinner table about her recent fender bender, with a punch line about "some retard" who parked behind her” (119). Bauer does not argue either of these points but just expresses her feeling about

Today’s society is different in its thinking when dealing with people with disabilities. There had to be many changes made in its labeling, and approach when dealing with people who may have physical/mental differences. The ostracize behavior that people were known to disturb in society has changed a great deal, due to the many federal laws that have been put in place to insure the well-being of people that have disabilities. In 1972, one very well-known case is Mill vs Board of Education of the District of Columbia this case address how the constituted rights of students were not being meet by not providing them with a public education.” Many disabled children had been excluded from public education prior to 1975,24 Congress, through the Act, sought initially to set up a process by which states would find children in need of educational services and bring them into the system”(Kotler, p.491,2014).

The word retarded hurts people so much that it makes them feel different from others. People who have a mental illness start to believe that they are below the average human and that they are not the same as others. The word is so offensive that it starts separating these people from the society. On top of that, in relation to this negative meaning, people as such will be ultimately feeling labbeled. Just like the Jewish people during the Holocaust, these people will be looked as differently, when in the end, we are all humans. This one word can ruin someone’s life which is why it should not be used. The word “retarded” is one of the many reasons why segregation still exists today; it separates innocent people for no reason.

In the late 1960’s and early 1970s, litigation began to establish the right to appropriate education services and placement bias protections for individuals ages 3 to 21 (Reschly, 2013). During this time, placement litigation, in particular, was focusing on the overrepresentation of racial minority students in educable mental retardation (EMR), or special education programs, with allegations of “inappropriate assessments, use of biased instruments, and excessive reliance on intelligence testing” (Reschly, 2013, p. 200).

Children with a learning or physical disability may be subjected to prejudice or discrimination at school because they could be treated differently

People who are mentally ill or disabled are often stigmatized in society and deemed of lesser value than those who are “normal,” meaning they do not have a mental illness or disability. There are only a few options for treatment within the disabled community and all of the options are unfair. They are, hospitalization to imprisonment to being homeless. These so-called treatments for those who are considered “abnormal” and “sick” dehumanize them, prevent them from making their own life decisions, devalue their quality of life, and further perpetuate stereotypes by separating the normal and abnormal people (as if they are different). In my paper, I will utilize the article “A Training Ground for Untrained Artists” by Nathaniel Richdec and a

Helen believes if she attends the special class, her friends will ridicule her. Furthermore, the author often refers to the term ‘retard’ for individuals with disabilities, however, DeClements wrote the book in 1985, prior to the bill replacing the terminology. Not until October 2010 did former President Obama sign a bill (now known as Rosa’s Law) to remove the terms “mental retardation” and “mentally retarded” from federal health, education and labor policy and replace it with people first language such as “individual with an intellectual disability” and “intellectual disability” (Diament, 2010). Finally, the author’s depiction of individuals with a disability advocate the belief that children with learning disabilities often go undetected until enrolled in school and even then incur delays due to identification, obtaining approval for testing, administering the evaluation, and determining

People with learning disabilities are often thought to have lower intelligence. In first through fourth grade I was thought to be one of the unintelligent kids in my class. I attended Saint Catherine’s of Sienna, a scary cold catholic school with some of the harshest nuns I have ever met. They would scowl at me every time I looked their way. During my time at Saint Catherine’s I was not yet diagnosed with my learning disability, as a result many of my teachers didn’t understand why I was not comprehending the information given to me like my classmates were. They often assumed my poor grades were a result of a

People with intellectual disabilities represent 4 to 10% of the offenders in the court system and it is higher in the juvenile court system (Davis, 2009). People with intellectual disabilities are at risk in the justice system evidenced by the way Brendan Dassey was treated when he was in custody and the treatment that he received as the trial progressed. Those with intellectual disabilities tend to be taken into custody, incarcerated, and then mistreated while in prison (Davis, 2009). Once this occurs, they tend to not get parole and may stay incarcerated longer (Davis, 2009). Another issue with the treatment of the intellectual disabled within the court system is that there is no federal standard for what IQ is defined as being intellectually

It is something we hear about more and more whether it be in the school systems or at a friend’s house and that is mental disorders amongst children. Mental disorders are talked about more now than ever before. In the 1700’s a mental disorder was considered a form of weakness, that something was wrong with the person spiritually and even considered a form of demonic possession. Some people and children with disorders were even put in special hospitals called psychiatric hospitals and special houses called almshouses, where they were mistreated and left by themselves. People and children with disorders were often neglected and even beaten with chains or rods. Now mental disorders have science and support to help ensure handicapped people/children are taken care of and given the best treatments possible. Mental disorders such as attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and autism spectrum disorder (autism) are some of the disorders I am going to be discussing in this paper. I will also be discussing my findings and opinions on these three mental disorders among children as well. Lastly, I will be discussing my impressions of the agency (Hamilton Center) I volunteered at.

The social values of persons with disabilities can a hit or miss. People sometimes assume a disability defines a person’s identity and leads them to view retards as social outcasts while others admire them because they sympathize for their challenges and want to help. According to “R-word Pledge” in November 2015,” When they were originally introduced, the terms “mental retardation” or “mentally retarded” were medical terms with a specifically clinical connotation; however, the pejorative forms, “retard” and “retarded” have been used widely today to degrade and insult people with intellectual disabilities. Additionally, when “retard” and “retarded” are used as synonyms for “dumb” or “stupid” by people without disabilities, it only reinforces painful stereotypes of people with intellectual disabilities being less valued members of humanity.” (R-Word). Due to the word being a descriptive word for a human, it should not have a negative meaning that be

The idea of children with disabilities, whether they be mild or severe has been a very controversial and misunderstood topic. In the past inclusion has brought about huge changes for not only the students, but also the parents and families of these children, and staff at schools. Teachers and education professionals were the first to really feel the wrath and intimidation of this dramatic shift in education. There were several different factors that were coming about that made it very difficult for schools and teachers, the unorganized mandates were strict and didn’t allow much time for change. “President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA) into law in 1975. Since the original passage of the EAHCA, the law has been amended four times and renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)” (Conroy, Yell, Katsiyannis, & Collins, 2010, para.1).

The civil rights movement and the inclusion controversies run side by side, however the segregation factors are contrasting. Color of skin does not affect a human’s ability to learn, therefore segregation was overturned. Mental retardation, however, will affect their education and peers in the classroom.