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Challenges of mental disability in the United States.

Mental disability affects children 4 times more than Rheumatic Heart Disease, 10 times more than Cerebral Palsy and 600 times more than Polio. Executive Director of Joseph P Kennedy Junior Foundation, Mr R Sargent Shriver comments on agency's grants to combat mental disability. Several mentally disabled women in a room in a mental institution setting. Many mentally disabled children in a room. Psychology Professor, Mr Earl Butterfield emphasizes the role of family in the life of mentally disabled persons and discusses "mentally retarded" persons. Parents of a mentally disabled boy. A child with bandages over his nose in a crib. Medical Director of the institute near the baby. A woman expresses her views about sending mentally disabled children to institutions.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1969
Duration: 7 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033419
Need for rehabilitation of mentally disabled children in the United States.

A volunteer helps a mentally disabled girl. Close-up of a sign 'State Department of Health, Mansfield. State Training School and Hospital'. Exterior of the building. A man opens a locked door with a key and enters. Superintendent Verne Kelly, mentions help from the University of Connecticut and its students, participating in a cooperative education program, called the "Big Brother and Big Sister" program, particularly for Mansfield children who have no parents or visitors. He quotes one child as saying "a big sister is someone who knows all about us and still likes us." A mentally disabled girl helped by a volunteer tries to bowl. At first she cries. Then she succeeds and is happy. A boy stands nearby. A wheelchair in the background. The woman and the girl smile.

Location: Mansfield Connecticut USA
Date: 1969
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033420
Various activities for assisting mentally disabled children in Mansfield, Connecticut.

Describes the facilities and various activities for assisting the 2000 mentally disabled children and adults at Mansfield State Training School and Hospital. Exterior of a building. Snow covered land. A dining room with rows of tables and chairs. Mentally disabled children in Mansfield State Training School and Hospital clean the dining room as a part of assistance services program. A mentally disabled child and a woman volunteer on a sled slide down the slope. Children enter a school. 'The Longley School, built in 1951, is one where mentally disabled children can participate in many activities such as band, dance and sports as a part of assistance programs. Feet of a dancing girl. A boy in front of a woman on a sled sliding down a snow covered hill, as seen from camera position in front of sled looking at riders on sled. Children play in a park. A boy riding a soap box derby car. Boys playing American football and basketball. A boy crashes in his soap box derby car but gets up and walks away. Mentally disabled children perform a dance routine during a stage program. A man voices his opinion about the need for developing some hobbies in the mentally disabled children helpful for them when they come in contact with the community outside of the program.

Location: Mansfield Connecticut USA
Date: 1969
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033421
Mentally disabled people learn many trades like sewing and cutting hair in Southbury Training School, United States.

Southbury Training School in Connecticut, opened in 1940 and imparts trade knowledge to mentally disabled persons. Narrator mentions Dr. Grover Powers, pediatrician on the faculty of Yale Medical School and charter member of the Southbury Board of Directors. A person walks in snow covered mountains. A sign reads 'Southbury Training School'. Exterior of the training school. The school aims to keep in mind the potential not the limit of the mentally disabled. Southbury employs a concept of "Cottage parents." Cottage parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson converse with Cottage Life Director, Gary Thorne . People move in groups. Two women look at rows of dresses. A man cuts hair. A person works on a shoe. Close view of an orthopedic shoe and a giant shoe. Several mentally disabled women work on sewing machines. A distinguished gentleman speaks with a paper in his hand. Another man speaks from behind his desk. Front of Southbury Training School with the American Flag near it.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1969
Duration: 6 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033422
Programs for rehabilitation of mentally disabled persons with physical disabilities in Health Institutions, United States

Mentally disabled people in Health institutions, United States. Women play musical instruments. Three blind, mentally disabled girls from Mansfield. A deaf, mentally disabled girl from Southbury is given speech therapy as a part of rehabilitation program. The girl has headphones over her ears. Several mentally disabled children in cribs. A woman examines the ears of the toddler with an instrument. According to Dr Francis Martin physical disabilities complicate mental disabilites. Several mentally disabled persons in wheelchairs. Mentally disabled children on a heated floor. Volunteers near children. A mentally disabled toddler plays. Mentally disabled women celebrate. A mentally disabled woman has a doll on her lap. Mentally disabled women in a room. A disabled woman talks to a volunteer. Women pray before eating food in a dining room. A mentally disabled woman does needlework. Another mentally disabled woman with a machine near her head crochets using her feet.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1969
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033423
Volunteers at the Seaside Regional Center help mentally disabled children to prepare for community life.

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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1969
Duration: 7 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033424
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