Plain Talk on Developmental Disabilities

by Mac Griffith

This is not a traditional academic textbook on mental retardation, and I am of no special mind to apologize. I have worked for many years as a staff psychologist for a community-based agency for individuals with developmental disabilities. This book is one result of that work, although I hope not the most important result. Because it springs from this setting, this book is more clinical than academic and written for an audience more wide than narrow. This audience includes direct care staff, case managers, supervisors, families, etc. I hope this book provides a lively and painless way of meeting the training needs of some of these groups. I have tried to focus on a few well-established principles and how to implement these principles rather than shifting through the fine print of knowledge. This is a nutural given that I am a clnician rather than an academic.

140 pages, Paperback

First published March 17, 2010

About the author

Mac lives in a small mountain town in Colorado. He likes skiing, fly fishing, running trails, and reading, but not quite to the exclusion of all other forms of human activity.