Registration Of Needy Urged
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HASTINGS, April 29.
The intellectually handicapped is the last major group of all the handicapped to win some measure of understanding, Dr. D. M. G. Beasley, president of the Intellectually Handicapped Children's Society, told the society's annual conference in Hastings today.
When the social history' of the present time came to be written in New Zealand, the work the society was doing—begun against so much apathy and at times opposition—would be regarded as one of the most praiseworthy of the efforts that had awakened the conscience of the community, said Dr. Beasley. Dr. Beasley said there was still no scheme of adequate training of teachers in occupation centres nor any plans for much. Dr. Beasley said he hoped the conference would again advocate a registry of handicapped children and adults. It seemed inescapable, he said, that planning must be hindered when the numbers
of those handicapped and their degree of handicap could only be guessed at.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30738, 30 April 1965, Page 2
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