The Deinstitutionalized Citizen: Adjustment and Quality of Life.

McDevitt, Susan Corominas; And Others

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Publication Date: 1978

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The Deinstitutionalized Citizen: Adjustment and Quality of Life

McDevitt, Susan Corominas; And Others

Mental Retardation, 16, 1, 22-4, Feb 78

Data gathered from interviews with 18 persons leaving a residential institution for the mentally retarded and entering independent living indicated such levels of adjustment and functioning as the following: the majority were fully employed as middle-income working persons, all were adept at using public transportation, and almost all would rather not be back at the institution. (IM)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Daily Living Skills, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Interviews, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation, Normalization (Handicapped)

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