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unusual facts about Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse



Erbkrank

Directed by Herbert Gerdes, it was one of six propagandistic movies produced by the "NSDAP, Reichsleitung, Rassenpolitisches Amt" or the Office of Racial Policy, from 1935 to 1937 to demonize people in Germany diagnosed with mental illness and mental retardation.

Jozef Gécz

Dr Jozef Gécz is a senior researcher at The University of Adelaide studying the various mutations of a small part of the X chromosome that lead to mental retardation.

Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix

The Presenting Sponsor since 2001 has been Shop 'n Save, and funds raised by the event benefit the Autism Society of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Valley School, which care for individuals with mental and physical disabilities.

Rennsteiglauf

Other competitions are a marathon (43.5 km) from Neuhaus am Rennweg to Schmiedefeld, a half marathon from Oberhof to Schmiedefeld, short cross country races for people with intellectual disabilities and several hiking courses from 10 to 50 km.

The Fearless Hyena

Fearless Hyena features several unusual fight scenes, including a chopsticks duel, Shing Lung fighting disguised as a cross-eyed mentally retarded man, disguised as a woman, and using "Emotional Kung-Fu", a style that involves vividly displaying the emotions of anger, sorrow, joy and happiness to find the opponent's weakness thus fighting whilst crying or laughing.

The Mongol in Our Midst

It advanced the now-discredited idea, then prevalent in contemporary scientific racism, that so-called "Mongolian imbecility," a form of mental retardation now known as Down syndrome, was an atavistic throwback to the more primitive Mongoloid race.

The Woman Who Willed a Miracle

Produced and directed by Sharron Miller and written by Arthur Heinemann, it tells the extraordinary true story of Leslie Lemke, a blind, mentally retarded boy with cerebral palsy who was raised from infancy by a foster mother who stubbornly refused to let him die.

Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse

Of the 16 state-run facilities, seven are mental health facilities, five are mental retardation training centers, one is a psychiatric facility for children and adolescents, one is a medical center, one is a psychiatric geriatric hospital and one is a center for behavioral rehabilitation (SVP).


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