mental retardation. IN NEED!!?

Question

How did people view mental retardation during in 1930's? also, our did our view change of mental retardation?

Answer 1

negatively and no

Answer 2

Back then it was best to ship the kid off to a live in school for 2 reasons.1 because it was a great embaressment to the family and 2 because they was uneducated on how to care for a mental retarded person.Of course our views changed because people now know how to take care of a family member with mental retardation and most are no longer embaressed to raise a mental retarded child.

Answer 3

to define mental retardation, one has to define what is normal. there have been many methods to determine the intelligence of one person o a normal person por example the IQ. The thing is that ist is define not normal wehn it is out of the statistical range. Using statistical methods , it has been define different levels of mental retardation from moderade to severe. Before all this, we only saw the pleople that were severe becasue it was easy to see.. people that didn talk, didnt pass a grade, didn walk ..... So if you se this every timme there is a new metthod to measure intelligence there might be more and more mental retardet and might include us

Answer 4

In the thirties the world saw Eugenics killing the mentally ill and mental retarded. They are two different things don't forget it.

Answer 5

Simply they killed them because they thought they were possessed by the devil or they were broken.Sometimes they actually "tried" to cure them by putting them on something and spinning them really fast to spin the retardation out of them.Stupid huh?But now we actually know a lot more about why they are this way.So now we treat them nicer and tend to there special needs and they try to make them a little smarter.