Past Is Prologue
The Rise and Fall of ‘Mentally Retarded’
How a term that replaced bad words became one — and how to stop it from happening again
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12 min readJul 11, 2015
In 1910, the Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Persons adopted three classifications of people we know today as intellectually disabled, as…
