List of institutions providing Special Education facilities
This is a list of historic institutions for the mentally disabled.
Canada
United States
- Southbury Training School, 1930s, Connecticut
- Iowa Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, 1876, Iowa
- Pineland Farms, 1908, Maine
- Crownsville Hospital Center, Maryland
- Institution for Idiots, Barre, Massachusetts, 1848 founded 1848 by Dr. Hervey B. Wilbur
- Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, 1848, founded by Samuel Gridley Howe
- The School for the Feeble-minded, Waltham, Massachusetts
- Walter E. Fernald State School, 1848, Massachusetts
- The School for the Feeble-minded, Laconia, New Hampshire
- E. R. Johnstone Training and Research Center, Bordentown, New Jersey
- Vineland Training School, 1888, Vineland, New Jersey, founded by Reverend S. Olin Garrison
- East Aurora Colony House, New York
- The Idiot School, 1866, Randalls Island House of Refuge, East River, New York
- Newark State School, 1878, New York
- Private Institute for Imbeciles, 1856, Brooklyn, New York, founded by James B. Richards
- St. Josephs Protectory, West Seneca, New York
- Syracuse State School, 1853, New York
- Willowbrook State School, Staten Island, New York
- Fairview Training Center, 1908, Oregon
- Elwyn Training School, Media, Pennsylvania, founded 1852 by Alfred L. Elwyn
- Pennhurst State School, Pennsylvania
- Grafton State School, Now Life Skills and Transition Center, North Dakota
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