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In recent years, almost every state government has been faced with cutbacks in budgets for mental health. A direct result of this has been an instruction to state-supported institutions to cut down on patient populations. Frequently, patients have been released from state institutions and reincarcerated in private nursing homes. However, a significant proportion of the mildly and moderately retarded patients have been turned out of the institutional setting and have been expected to operate and survive within the context of everyday urban environments. Many social workers and others concerned with deinstitutionalized retarded populations have expressed extreme dissatisfaction with policies concerning the release of patients. While many of these released individuals exhibit the basic personal, vocational and social skills needed to survive in an external environment such as a city, they have rarely been taught how to comprehend the spatial structure of urban environments or how to use such environments adequately on a day by day basis.
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Golledge, R.G., Richardson, G.D., Rayner, J.N., Parnicky, J.J. (1983). Procedures for Defining and Analyzing Cognitive Maps of the Mildly and Moderately Mentally Retarded. In: Pick, H.L., Acredolo, L.P. (eds) Spatial Orientation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9325-6_4
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