Institutions for the mentally disabled
- Institutions for the mentally disabled
This is a list of historic institutions for the mentally disabled.
Canada
*Child and Parent Resource Institute, London, Ontario
United States
*Walter E. Fernald State School, 1848
*Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, Perkins Institute for the Blind, founded 1848 by Samuel Gridley Howe
*Institution for Idiots, Barre, Massachusetts, 1848 founded 1848 by Dr. Hervey B. Wilbur
*Elwyn Training School, Media, Pennsylvania, founded 1852 by Alfred L. Elwyn
*Syracuse State School, New York, 1853
*Private Institute for Imbeciles Brooklyn, New York, 1856 by James B. Richards
*The Idiot School at Randall's Island House of Refuge, East River, New York 1866
*Newark State School New York, 1878
*Vineland Training School, Vineland, New Jersey, 1888 by Reverend S. Olin Garrison
*E. R. Johnstone Training and Research Center, Bordentown, New Jersey
*The School for the Feeble-minded, Laconia, New Hampshire
*Pennhurst State School, Pennsylvania
*St. Josephs Protectory, West Seneca, New York
*East Aurora Colony House
*The School for the Feeble-minded, Waltham, Massachusetts
*Willowbrook State School, Staten Island, New York
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