Diagnostic staff meeting minutes, 1956-1976.

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Diagnostic staff meeting minutes, 1956-1976.

As a residential treatment center and educational facility for mentally retarded persons in Massachusetts, the Walter E. Fernald State School is responsible for providing diagnostic services for its clients. Diagnostic staff meetings were once held for this purpose. At each meeting three or four incoming clients were introduced individually to the assembled diagnostic staff. Minutes were created to diagnose clients entering the school and to communicate findings to other staff.

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Walter E. Fernald State School

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The Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children conducted at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1848 was incorporated by Massachusetts as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth in 1850. It was renamed Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in 1883 and Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925. From the description of Movement of population log, <1920-1977> (bulk <1960-1977>). (Unknown). WorldCat re...