The habilitation success record of residential programs for the mentally handicapped is examined across a five decade period. Temporal variability within the record is more easily attributed to the adequacy of past accountability research and to evolving or devolving public policy than to program effects, socio-economic climate, or receiver group attitudes as these shift over time. The findings of the aggregate analysis appear to have implications for future program accountability research strategies exercised on behalf of the newer community-based habilitation services network.
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