Social Services Unit home placement studies, <1950-1959>.

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Social Services Unit home placement studies, <1950-1959>.

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As a residential treatment center and educational facility for mentally retarded persons in Massachusetts, the Walter E. Fernald State School, through its Social Services Unit, placed selected clients in local homes as live-in domestics. These files provide an assessment of the adequacy of homes for placement of clients.

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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, &lt;1920-1977&gt; (bulk &lt;1960-1977&gt;). (Unknown). WorldCat re...