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| Dorothea Dix | campaigned for better care of institutionalized persons |
| Sir Francis Galton | author of HEREDITARY GENIUS |
| Itard | educated a young child found in the woods |
| Seguin | developed a training program emphasizing moral education |
| Guggenbuhl | developed prototype for institutional care |
| PARK v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA | established the right to a free public education for all children with MR |
| MILLS v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | established the right to a free public education for all children with disabilities |
| P.L. 94-142 | established the guidelines for educating all students with MR |
| idiot | an historical term used to include all levels of MR |
| IQ | variable that plays dominant role in identification of MR |
| incidence | refers to number of new cases identified within a population over a specific period of time |
| prevalence | refers to the total number of cases of a disorder existing within a population |
| adaptive behavior | degree and efficiency with which the individual functions in the environment |
| disablism | assumptions and practices that promote differential and unequal treatment of people with disabilites |
| mental retardation | significantly subaverage intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior and occurring during the developmental period. |
| six-hour retarded child | a child is considered mentally retarded at school but appears to function normally outside of school |
| eugenics movement | science movement which manipulates breeding to improve the quality of the human race |
| nature-nurture controversy | the debate as to whether intelligence is innate or acquired |
| normalization | treating an individual with special needs as if he had not special needs to the maximum extent possible |
| community-based instruction | teaching a skill in the actual environment as opposed to the classroom |
