Places of social poverty and service dependency of people with intellectual disabilities:1[1] <ce:note-para>“Intellectual disabilities” refers to learning disabilities, intellectual handicaps, mental handicaps, mental retardation (), developmental disabilities, and, lately in the US, cognitive disabilities. In this paper, I have used “feebleminded” or “mentally deficient”, whichever term was used during the time period referenced.</ce:note-para>a case study in Baltimore, Maryland

Abstract: In the United States, post-asylum geographies of people with intellectual disabilities implicate the condition of service dependency in their social impoverishment, here defined as “isolation from the community and lack of real friendships and relationships” (The importance of income. The Self-Determination National Program Office of the Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, Concord, 1998, p. 2). Social historical geographies of people with intellectual disabilities, both general and local to Baltimore, Maryland, contextualize how one voluntary service organization re/created service dependency and social poverty of people with intellectual disabilities through residential location decisions. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]