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The Special Ed Pioneer Who Still Haunts Psychology
Harvard professor Alex Green's book "A Perfect Turmoil" profiles Walter Fernald, a 20th-century psychiatrist and educator who ...
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New OPB documentary examines the troubling history of Fairview, Oregon’s primary institution for those with developmental disabilities
The facility opened in 1908 as the State Institution for the Feeble-Minded. Most of the first patients came from the Oregon State Hospital for the Insane. For decades, residents were officially ...
Publishers Weekly1mon
A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled
As the superintendent of what was then known as the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded (now named for Fernald), he introduced a humanizing new standard of care (insisting, for instance ...
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LaRue presents program on one of Ohio’s most interesting cemeteries
The first meeting of the season of the Fayette County Genealogical Society was held Monday, March 17. Paul LaRue, local ...