Mental Retardation: A Study of Ten Young Adults Between the Ages of Seventeen and Thirty-Two Who Were Employed by the Sheltered Workshop of the Westchester Association for the Help of Retarded Children, White Plains, New York, 1959-1961

Selena Meredith Grissom, Fordham University

Abstract

This is a case study of ten mentally retarded young adults who were employed by the Westchester Association for the Help of Retarded Children, White Plains, New York, from 1959 through 1961. All individual retardates of the study were between seventeen and thrity-two years of age. These retarded young adults lived in their own homes and in institutions and foster homes. This was a mixed group consisting of both sexes and of the White and Negro races.

Subject Area

Social research|Social work

Recommended Citation

Grissom, Selena Meredith, "Mental Retardation: A Study of Ten Young Adults Between the Ages of Seventeen and Thirty-Two Who Were Employed by the Sheltered Workshop of the Westchester Association for the Help of Retarded Children, White Plains, New York, 1959-1961" (1962). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30613196.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30613196

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