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Abstract
Persons with mental retardation are a vulnerable population with multiple needs and an important minority group that has suffered from a variety of discriminatory practices. Yet, the social work education currently does not have an educational standard for including this population in the curriculum. Students of social work—future social workers—can make important social service contributions to this special population, but only if the students are educated about this group. This article presents a curriculum infusion model for use in the Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) sequence. This model, which is efficient and easy to implement, provides content about persons with mental retardation from a micro and a macro perspective. Although inclusion of content on this population in the HBSE sequence will provide basic knowledge about mental retardation, the author recommends that such content be included in all of the foundation sequences.