A map of Connecticut, on which Director Bert Schnikel points regional centers such as Hartford, New Haven and the Seaside Regional Center Waterford, on the Long Island Sound. Mr Fred F Finn, Director of Seaside Center points out the importance of family in a mentally disabled person's life. Volunteers take care of children. A volunteer helps a girl to take medicine. The volunteer strokes the face of the child. And the child makes faces. Children play outside on a tractor ride. People get into a car and the car drives away. Mentally disabled children from Mansfield and Southbury come to "Seaside Regional Center for the Mentally Retarded" to prepare for community life. A boy puts on a television and sits down to watch it. A woman hands things to a girl. Volunteers help children to walk. A mentally disabled girl holds a book in her hands. A postcard sent by a normal sibling of a mentally disabled boy. Children play in snow. A boy sits on a seat while a man bends. A mentally disabled boy plays with his brothers. A couple talks about their mentally disabled child while he sits nearby.
Families of mentally disabled children tell how their children have profited from rehabilitation programs. Snow covered land. A woman tells how her mentally disabled child has benefited after going to Mansfield School. A family in a room. The mother tells about the change in the facilities and attitude for the mentally disabled as awareness about mental disability increases. A mentally disabled boy reads from a book.
Education for the mentally handicapped in the United States. A woman evaluates a boy. A mentally disabled girl arranges cubes on a table. An open notebook in front of the girl. A man helps a mentally disabled boy to stack blocks on top of each other. Children and a teacher in a classroom. The teacher writes a math problem on the blackboard. The teacher teaches mathematics to disabled students. She shows a booklet to the students and asks a question. The students raise their hands. Another classroom. A teacher reads from a book. She sits with a girl and helps her to read. Another girl reads incorrectly. The teacher corrects her.
Evaluation and assistance for mentally disabled people. Dr David Zieman talks about learning in the mentally disabled. A mentally disabled child in front of a one way mirror. A woman observes the child through the opposite side of the mirror. The woman pushes a tray towards the child from underneath the mirror. The tray has a circular object and an object in the form of a plus sign. The boy selects an object and pushes the tray towards the woman. A woman and a mentally disabled girl near a machine. The girl pushes a lever on the machine. A man works on a machine. A sign reads 'Meriden Regional Training Center and Shelter Workshop'. A bespectacled man explains something to a group of people. In a room several mentally disabled trainees are prepared to work in the outside world. A woman seated at a table. A man works on a machine. A woman punches a card at a machine and puts the card in a holder. A man follows the same. A meter. Several mentally disabled women work.
Care givers help mentally disabled in various activities. A care giver helps a mentally disabled, blind man back and forth in a room. The second time the blind man feels the way in front of him with a cane. The care giver walks a little distance behind him and helps him when he falters. The blind man holds railing and comes down the stairs, feeling out the way in front of him with the help of his cane. Various programs for the rehabilitation of the mentally disabled. Several mentally disabled children negotiate an obstacle course. Mentally disabled children play volley ball with a coach. Mentally disabled people dance. Four mentally disabled children play softball. A woman helps a mentally disabled child to climb up stairs. A woman brushes and cleans a child's face with a cloth. She exercises the child by helping him roll on a drum. A nurse helps a girl to climb stairs. Several women in the background help other disabled children. A woman comforts a child as he coughs. Some care givers entertain mentally disabled children, a few of whom are in wheelchairs.
Rehabilitation of the mentally disabled. An operation theater. Surgeons wrap bandages on the legs of a boy who has been operated upon. The boy on ventilator. Two physiotherapists help a boy to climb up and down a small flight of stairs. Another therapist helps a boy to roll on a big medicine ball. She puts a spatula in his mouth. A woman helps a child to walk. The therapist puts a vibrator on his foot. A man assembles a special chair. A mentally disabled child is lifted off a gurney and placed in the special chair. Nurses and doctors nearby.
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