Institutions for the mentally disabled

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This is a list of historic institutions for the mentally disabled.

[edit] Canada

• Child and Parent Resource Institute, London, Ontario

[edit] 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