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Bibliography
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This bibliography was maintained by Burton Blatt during his lifetime and therefore shows some entries as "in preparation" or "submitted for publication". The Archives has left this document as it was at the time of Blatt's death in 1985.
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Books, Monographs, and Major Reports
- Blatt, B. The physical, personality, and academic
status of children who are mentally retarded attending special classes
as compared with children who are mentally retarded attending regular
classes. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, the Pennsylvania State
University, 1956). Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1956.
- Sarason, S. B., Davidson, K., & Blatt, B. The
preparation of teachers: An unstudied problem in education. New York:
John Wiley, 1962.
- Blatt, B. (Project Director). The education of
handicapped children in Rhode Island. Providence: Legislative Commission
to Study the Education of Handicapped Youth, March 1963.
- Blatt, B. (Issue Ed.). Mental Retardation: Its
consequence and our treatment. Journal of Education, 1964, 147.
- Blatt, B., & Garfunkel, F. A
field demonstration of the effects of nonautomated responsive environments
on the intellectual and social competence of educable mentally retarded
children. U.S. Office of Education, Cooperative Research Project
No. 0-014, 1965. (Also published as The educability of intelligence.
Reston, VA: Council for Exceptional Children, 1969.)
- Blatt, B., & Kaplan, F. Christmas in Purgatory: A Photographic Essay on Mental Retardation (2nd ed ••
Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1966. Originally printed and distributed by
the first author in 1966; after many printings by Allyn & Bacon, the
3rd edition was published in Syracuse, NY: Human Policy Press,
1974. (Also numerous major excerpts have appeared in books, articles, films, and slide-tape publications, more recent examples being: Altrocchi, J., Abnormal behavior. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1980, pp. 232-233; Greer, J. G., Anderson, R. M. & Odle, S. J. Eds. Strategies for helping severely and multiply handicapped citizens. Baltimore: University Park Press, 1982; Kneedler, R. D., Hallahan, D. P., Kauffman, J. M., Special education for today. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1984, p. 24; and the film, Education for all children. Champaign, Ill.: Research Press, 1982.)
- Blatt, B. The intellectually disfranchised: Impoverished
learners and their teachers. Boston: Massachusetts Department of Mental
Health, Community Mental Health Monograph Series, 1966.
- Blatt, B. (Issue Ed.). Markings in the pioneer career
of J. E. Wallace Wallin. Journal of Education, 1968, 151.
- Blatt, B. (Issue Ed.). Learning disabilities. Seminars in Psychiatry, August 1969, 237-361.
- Blatt, B. Exodus
from Pandemonium: Human abuse and a reformation of public policy.
Boston: Allyn &: Bacon, 1970. Also many excerpts and chapters have
been published in other books and journals, for example: Ingalls, R. Mental
retardation: The chaining outlook. New York: John Wiley &: Sons,
1978, pp. 412-415; Ysseldyke, J. & Algozzine. The practice of special
education: An introduction. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983.
- Blatt, B. (Project Director). Massachusetts study
of educational opportunities for handicapped and disadvantaged children.
Boston: Massachusetts Advisory Council on Education, January 1971.
- Blatt, B. (Project Director). A proposal for an
institute on human treatment and public policy. Syracuse: Syracuse
University, December 1970, and A proposal for a child advocacy program
in Onondaga County. Syracuse: Syracuse University, February 1971.
These proposals led to the original
sponsorship and early support of the Center on Human Policy.)
- Blatt, 8. (Project Director). Children with special
needs in New York State. New York: N.Y.S. Commission on the Quality,
Cost and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education, September 1971.
(This study was incorporated in The Fleischman report on the quality,
cost, and financing of elementary and secondary education in New York
State. Vol.II. New York: The Viking Press, 1973, pp 162-273.)
- Blatt, B. Souls in extremis: An anthology on victims
and victimizers. Boston: Allyn &: Bacon, 1973. (Also many excerpts
and chapters have been published in other books and journals.)
- Blatt, B., &: MacDonald, M. A. (Eds.). Selected
media reviews: 1970-1973. Reston, VA: Council for Exceptional Children,
1973.
- Blatt, B. (Ed.). Media reviews. Reston, VA:
Council for Exceptional Children, 1976. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service
No. ED 131 621)
- Blatt, B. Revolt of the idiots: A story. Glen
Ridge, NJ: Exceptional Press, 1976. (Also many excerpts have been published
in other books and journals.)
- Blatt, B., Biklen, D., &: Bogdan, R. (Eds.).
An alternative textbook in special education: People, schools and other
institutions. Denver: Love Publishing, 1977.
- Blatt, B., Ozolins, A., &. McNally, J. The family album: Views of residential settings for mentally retarded people. Slides-Script Syracuse, NY: Human Policy Press, 1978.
- Blatt, B., Ozolins,
A., & McNally, J. The Family Papers: A return to Purgatory
New York: longman, Inc., 1979. Exhibited at the International Center of
Photography, New York City, February, 1980. Also many excerpts have been
published in books and journals, such as in Blake, K., Educating exceptional
children. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1982, pp. 118,
382; and in the Journal for Special Educators as What shall be our
future: A photo essay. 1983, 19, 23-27.)
- Blatt, B. In and out of mental retardation: Essays
on educability, disability and human policy. Austin,
TX: Pro-Ed, 1984 (originally published by Baltimore: University Park Press,
1981.) (Also several lengthy excerpts have appeared since publication
of this book, such as in The
Exceptional Parent, 1981, 114 , 54.)
- Blatt, B. In and out of the university: Essays
on higher and special education. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed, 1984 (originally
published by Baltimore: University Park Press, 1982.) (Also several excerpts
have appeared since publication of this book.)
- Blatt, B. & Morris, R. (Eds.). Perspectives
in special education: Volume 1. Personal orientations. Glenview, Il:
Scott Foresman and Co., 1984.
- Blatt, B. In and out of books: Reviews and other
polemics on special education. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed, 1984 originally
published by Baltimore: University Park Press, 1984.)
- Blatt, B. Mental retardation: A textbook for the
professions. Austin, TX; ProEd, in press.
- Blatt, B. Ernest, Ruth and Uncle Waldo: A story.
Submitted for publication.
- Blatt, B. The professor: A story. Submitted
for publication.
- Blatt, B. In and out of trouble: Old controversies
and new arguments on mental retardation. In preparation.
- Blatt, B. Professor
stories. In preparation.
