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B743: Primary Health Care And The Developmentally Disabled: An Analysis Of The Normalization Principle In The State Of Maine, Dennis A. Watkins, Julia M. Watkins, Sheila R. Bissonnette, Betty A. Brown

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At the time of publication, there existed an estimated group of 10 million American people defined as developmentally disabled. Stimulated in part by the often observed dehumanizing environment of institutional arrangement for the mentally disabled, the search for more humane treatment and management alternative has pointed in the direction of what has been termed ' normalization."

In 1969, the Danish Mental Retardation Service defined normalization as '' letting the mentally retarded obtain an existence as close to normal as possible."

The focus of this study is on barriers to the normalization principle in the provision of primary health care to …