List of institutions providing special education facilities

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This is a list of institutions providing special education facilities, educating students in a way that accommodates their individual differences, disabilities, and special needs.

Canada

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

Child and Parent Resource Institute, London, Ontario

United States

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

California

Agnews Insane Asylum (1885–c. 2014), Santa Clara, California^[1]
Banksia Sanitarium (closed), Los Angeles, California^[1]
Camarillo State Mental Hospital (1936–1997), Camarillo, California
Gardner Sanitarium (1900–1922), Ralston Hall, Belmont, California^[1]
Lanterman State Hospital and Developmental Center (1921–2015), Pomona, California
Livermore Sanitarium (1895–1965), Livermore, California^[1]
Mendocino State Asylum for the Insane (later Mendocino State Hospital; 1889–1972), Talmage, California^[1]
Modesto State Hospital (1946–1972), Modesto, California^[1]
Napa State Hospital (1875–present), Napa, California^[1]
Park Sanitarium (closed), Masonic at Page Street, San Francisco, California^[1]
San Francisco Marine Hospital (1853–1912), San Francisco, California
Sonoma Developmental Center (1891–2018), Eldridge, California^[1]
Stockton State Insane Asylum (1853–mid-1990s), Stockton, California^[1]
Sunshine School (1937–1970s), San Francisco, California^[2]

Connecticut

Southbury Training School (1930s–present), Southbury, Connecticut

Iowa

Iowa Institution for Feeble-Minded Children (now Glenwood Resource Center; 1866–2024), Loess Hills, Iowa

Maine

Pineland Farms (or Pineland Hospital and Training Center; 1908–1996), New Gloucester, Maine

Maryland

Crownsville Hospital Center (1911–2004), Crownsville, Maryland

Massachusetts

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

Minnesota

School for the Feeble-Minded and Colony for Epileptics, Faribault, Minnesota

New Hampshire

The School for the Feeble-minded, Laconia, New Hampshire

New Jersey

Brookfield Schools, southern New Jersey
E. R. Johnstone Training and Research Center, Bordentown, New Jersey
Vineland Training School, 1888, Vineland, New Jersey, founded by Reverend S. Olin Garrison

New York (state)

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

North Dakota

Grafton State School, Now Life Skills and Transition Center, North Dakota

Oregon

Fairview Training Center, 1908, Oregon

Pennsylvania

Elwyn Training School, Media, Pennsylvania, founded 1852 by Alfred L. Elwyn
Pennhurst State School, Pennsylvania

See also

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Dowd, Katie (2016-06-16). "Historic asylums and sanitariums of Northern California". SFGATE (article and carousel).
^ "San Francisco Landmark 286: Sunshine School". noehill.com. Retrieved 2024-03-09.

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