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U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Secretary's Committee on Mental Retardation . 1964. Response to the recommendations of the President's Panel on Mental Retardation, November 1962 - November, 1963.. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Secretary's Committee on Mental Retardation, 69 pp.

Annotation: The report of the President's Panel on Mental Retardation was presented to President Kennedy in October, 1962. The report contains recommended action to combat mental retardation in the fields of research, prevention, services, education, vocational rehabilitation, training, residential care, the law, and public awareness. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is responsible for the implementation of almost all of these recommendations. This report lists the Department's response made from November 1962 to November 1962 to the recommendations of the panel. The Department's response falls into three main categories: The special message of President Kennedy to Congress, legislation enacted in response to the Panel's recommendations, and other responses. These categories are used as the format for listing the Department's responses in this report.

Keywords: Education, Federal legislation, Mental health services, Mental retardation, Prevention, Reports, Research, Residential care, Training, US Department of Health Education and Welfare, Vocational rehabilitation

U.S. President's Panel on Mental Retardation. 1962. Report of the Task Force on Prevention, Clinical Services and Residential Care. Washington, DC: U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 57 pp.

Annotation: This report is a summary of ideas and materials collected by Task Force I of the President's Panel on Mental Retardation. It covers the fields of prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care, clinical services, and residential care, both from the medical and the behavioral science point of view.

Keywords: Diagnosis, Mental retardation, Prevention, Residential care, Therapeutics
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