Traveling clinic case files, 1921-1955.

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Traveling clinic case files, 1921-1955.

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In 1920 the Dept. of Mental Diseases and the Dept. of Education planned for the organization of outpatient clinics in nine districts of Massachusetts to diagnose children in accordance with the provisions of St 1919, c 277, requiring school committees to provide special education to mentally retarded students within the public school system. A psychiatrist at the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded (later the Walter E. Fernald State School) was given supervision of the traveling clinic in the district originally coverning Danvers, Fall River, Gloucester, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, New Bedford, Revere, Salem, Waltham, Watertown, and Worcester. The traveling clinic case files were created by a team of psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychometrists from Fernald, who were to determine the number of mentally retarded in each school, and to recommend training and special education for these students.

187.85 cubic ft. (150 record center cartons and 1 doc. box)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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