Life In The Community Reading Summary

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The Life in the Community Reading focus on the decline of people with developmental disabilities in the community and the public establishments that housed them. After the deinstitutionalization, numerous amounts of people were transferred from large institutions to smaller ones in the community. This reading discusses the research on these smaller organizations that contained people with developmental disabilities. They investigated the different methods these institutions used to help integrate people with developmental disabilities into the community. There were five different administrations that contribute to these studies; for instance, the benevolent organization, the professional organization, the intentional community, the organization

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