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Having posted to the list, I would like to introduce myself. I am Executive Director of Valley Mountain Regional Center, Inc., a non-profit corporation that serves almost 7,000 developmentally disabled children and adults in the Northern San Joaquin Valley of California (the two largest cities are Stockton and Modesto). Since my degrees are in English and Public Administration, and my involvement in the developmental disabilities field is primarily managerial, with some involvement in specific cases involving sex offenders, community NIMBYites, and other rather dramatic situations, I am interested in how the academic world views disability in general and mental retardation in particular (that being the largest component of developmental disability as defined in California). -Dick Jacobs %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%