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The Needs of Young Intellectually Retarded Adults
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2018
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It is now generally agreed that the words ‘handicapped individual’ need to be considered as having a social rather than a medical or educational meaning. To arrive at such a conclusion, however, it is necessary briefly to consider the words ‘impairment’, ‘disability’ and ‘handicap’ (Figure 1).
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