Great Moments in History

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Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education; Teaching Old Logs New Tricks

Description: The cartoon shows two people at a desk a woman sitting behind the desk and a man standing in front of her. The woman is erasing something from a bell-curve graph on a document called, "Mental Retardation Definition Change." The man is saying "Tomorrow, when this becomes official, how many people will no longer be mentally retarded?" The woman responds, "LOTS!" The tag line reads, "Great Moments in special education history: The 1970's provide proof-positive that disability is a social construction."

Subject: History.; Social construction.; Intellectual disability.; Definitions.; Labeling.

Note [Digital Version]: 2020-11-29, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries