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Intellectual Disability

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Psychopathology
Developmental Disabilities

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Images about Intellectual Disability

6 images from works
  • Feeble-mindedness, its causes and consequences / by Henry Herbert Goddard.
  • John Donaldson, a simpleton. Etching.
  • Mendelism and the problem of mental defect.
  • A cerebral atlas : illustrating the difference between the brains of mentally defective and normal individuals, with a social, mental and neurological record of 120 defectives during life / by Richard J.A. Berry.
  • Feeble-mindedness, its causes and consequences / by Henry Herbert Goddard.
  • A cerebral atlas : illustrating the difference between the brains of mentally defective and normal individuals, with a social, mental and neurological record of 120 defectives during life / by Richard J.A. Berry.

Works from the collections

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    Twelfth annual report of the New York Asylum for Idiots : transmitted to the Legislature February 4th, 1863 / New York State Asylum for Idiots.

    New York State Asylum for Idiots. | Date: 1863
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    On the education of the imbecile / by Dora Greenwell.

    Greenwell, Dora, 1821-1882. | Date: 1869
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    Rehabilitation : report of a Sub-Committee of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee.

    Great Britain. Standing Medical Advisory Committee. Sub-Committee on Rehabilitation. | Date: 1972
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    Report of the Mental Deficiency Committee : being a joint committee of the Board of Education and Board of Contro.

    Great Britain. Mental Deficiency Committee. | Date: 1929
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    Walter / by David Cook.

    Cook, David, 1940-2015. | Date: 1980
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Related topics

Mental Disorders
Child
Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Education
United Kingdom
New York
Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Syracuse
New York State Asylum for Idiots

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