Supplemental Appropriations to Combat Metnal Retardation: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963 - Mental retardation - 105 pages
 

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Page 23 - Intramural and extramural support programs of the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness of the Public Health Service.
Page 39 - The functions of the new bureau as recited in the law are to investigate and report on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 79 - GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CENTERS FOR RESEARCH ON MENTAL RETARDATION AND RELATED ASPECTS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PART B — PROJECT GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF UNIVERSITY-AFFILIATED FACILITIES FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED ?H AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS SEC.
Page 3 - Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, and Public Law 164, the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963.
Page 79 - June 30, 1967, for project grants to •assist in meeting the costs of construction of facilities for research, or research and related purposes, relating to human development, whether biological, medical, social, or behavioral, which may assist in finding the causes, and means of prevention, of mental retardation, or in finding means of ameliorating the effects of mental retardation.
Page 41 - States include diagnosis, evaluation of a child's capacity for growth, the development of a treatment and management plan, interpretation of findings and counseling of parents, and follow-up care.
Page 29 - The Public Health Service, as the principal health agency of the Federal Government, is responsible for the conduct or support of a broad spectrum of services, research, manpower development, facilities construction, and planning for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or amelioration of mental retardation as a health problem.
Page 5 - ... in the clinical training of physicians and other specialized personnel needed for research, diagnosis and treatment, education, training, or care of the mentally retarded...
Page 59 - Health will also transmit to the Food and Drug Administration pertinent information generated by the activities of the Psychopharmacology Service Center of the National Institute of Mental Health. In...
Page 48 - to encourage expansion of teaching in the education of mentally retarded children through grants to institutions of higher learning and to State educational agencies.

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