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.
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.
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.
Orientation program for mentally disabled. A mentally disabled, blind person feels out the way with the help of his cane. His care giver a little way behind. The care giver gestures for someone to come towards them. A car passes by. A child puts rings in a wooden stick in descending order of size. A man with some mentally disabled children. The man takes a boy's hand and makes him feel the man's cheeks then the child's own cheek. Three blind, mentally disabled children - a girl and two boys, move on a path feeling the railing. Their instructor stands nearby. They move inside a house. The blind, mentally disabled girl picks up a toy from a bed and keeps it on a table. She takes out a bed cover from the headrest of the bed. A blind mentally disabled boy slides the door of a wardrobe. Two disabled persons wash utensils as a part of vocational training. A group of children sit in a circle with their legs outstretched. A man with a medicine ball in the center. A man and a boy in a pool. A mentally disabled girl plays a trumpet. A group of mentally disabled people in wheelchairs clap and enjoy. Mentally disabled children in wheelchairs.
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