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Western Australia - Glossary Term
Mentally Deficient
- Categories
- Term commonly found on child welfare records
- Alternative Names
- Backward Child (also known as)
- Educationally Retarded (also known as)
- Mental Defective (also known as)
- Mentally Retarded (also known as)
- Retarded Scholastically (also known as)
The term mentally deficient was used in Western Australia from around the 1920s to the late 1970s to describe people with intellectual disabilities. Other terms included educationally retarded, mentally retarded, backward and retarded scholastically.
Publications
Newspaper Articles
- 'The Army and Mental Deficients', The War Cry, 1 January 1927. Details
Online Resources
- 'Mental deficiency', The West Australian, 2 January 1913, p. 4, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26863429. Details
- 'Mentally deficient children', The West Australian, 26 September 1924, p. 10, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31254920. Details
- Disability Services Commission, State of Western Australia, 'Submission No. 84 Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care: Submissions', in Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care - Submissions received by the committee as at 17/3/05, Senate Community Affairs Committee, Commonwealth of Australia, 30 July 2003, http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/submissions/sublist. Details
- Information Services, Department for Community Development, Signposts: A Guide for Children and Young People in Care in WA from 1920, Government of Western Australia, 2004, https://signposts.communities.wa.gov.au//pdf/pdf.aspx. Details
Photos
- Title
- Glossary of terms relating to mental hospitals, Western Australia
- Type
- Document
- Date
- 2012
- Source
- Dr Philippa Martyr, Department of Health Western Australia
- Note
- p.5
Details