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Peer reviewedCoulter, David L. – Mental Retardation, 1992
This paper recommends adoption of a new vision of mental retardation prevention and an ecological approach to understanding the causation of mental retardation. The paper concludes that a comprehensive, coordinated, and integrated prevention program is needed that addresses a variety of personal, social, and environmental risk factors and the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Ecological Factors, Environmental Influences, Etiology
