Disabled celebrate department’s name change
With the start of the fiscal year, the state Department of Mental Retardation has taken on a new name. The agency, which serves developmentally disabled children and adults, adopted the name Department of Developmental Services yesterday, signaling a victory for the disabled and their providers who lobbied for years against the pejorative phrase “mental retardation.’’
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