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1991.02.02 :  Conference -- Mental Retardation

Contact:  David J. Touch (202) 245-7110                           
February 2, 1991
              
     Comprehensive State/Territorial plans to prevent mental
retardation and related developmental disabilities will be the
primary focus of a national summit and exhibit to be held at the
Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., February 5-7, l991.
     The conference "The New Morbidity" will be sponsored by the
President's Committee on Mental Retardation in cooperation with the
HHS Administration on Developmental Disabilities, Centers for
Disease Control, Social Security Administration with the American
Academy of Pediatrics and other Federal and national social service
organizations.  It feature presentations by nationally recognized
mental retardation experts on preventing mental retardation caused
by social/economic conditions and a checklist of individual mental
retardation prevention programs.
     The results of the conference will be used to update the
Committee's 1987" Guide for State Planning which featured exemplary
State prevention programs.
     Sabhu N. Banik, Ph.D., Executive Director of the President's
Committee on Mental Retardation said, "The prevention of mental
retardation is one of the highest priorities of the Committee. 
This national summit promises to be a significant step toward
achieving our prevention goals."     
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