Education of Mentally Retarded Persons: Selected Papers.

Provided are 15 papers originally presented at a 1971 national conference on the education of mentally retarded persons. Papers deal with the following topics: current issues in the education of the mentally retarded, right to education, information and practical politics, a program for improving mealtime behaviors of a severely retarded child, transportation services, curriculum development, residential education programs, classification and placement, severely and profoundly retarded persons in the public schools, the Developmental Disabilities Act's implications for continuing education, practical insights needed for achieving sound educational programs, effecting change in the educational system, and federal legislation and the mentally retarded child. (DB)