Date of Award
5-1965
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
D.T. Pedrini
Second Advisor
W.E. Jaynes
Third Advisor
B. Byers
Abstract
Rothstein (1962, pp. 582, 583) in summarizing some of the findings which were issued at the 1960 meeting of the White House Conference on Children and Youth stated:
That there are 5,000,000 retarded individuals of all ages in America ....That 95 out of 100,000 citizens in the United States are receiving care in residential institutions for the mentally retarded....That, of the number of retarded individuals admitted to state institutions for the first time, 85 percent are under 20 years of age ... The proportion of institutionalized educable retarded individuals is dropping, hut the proportion of institutionalized children with I.Q.s below 50 is increasing considerably ....That $250,000,000 a year is being spent by state governments to operate institutions for 150,000 retarded Individuals....That between 1950-1957, 10,000 beds were added to institutions for the mentally retarded, but there are approximately 10,000-15,000 on waiting lists for admission.
Recommended Citation
Ihrig, David C., "The test-retest performance of 427 institutionalized mentally retarded individuals on the 1937 revision of the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale" (1965). Student Work. 135.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/135
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