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
Child and Parent Resource Institute, London, Ontario
United States
California
Agnews Insane Asylum (1885–c. 2014), Santa Clara, California Banksia Sanitarium (closed), Los Angeles, California Camarillo State Mental Hospital (1936–1997), Camarillo, California Gardner Sanitarium (1900–1922), Ralston Hall, Belmont, California Lanterman State Hospital and Developmental Center (1921–2015), Pomona, California Livermore Sanitarium (1895–1965), Livermore, California Mendocino State Asylum for the Insane (later Mendocino State Hospital; 1889–1972), Talmage, California Modesto State Hospital (1946–1972), Modesto, California Napa State Hospital (1875–present), Napa, California Park Sanitarium (closed), Masonic at Page Street, San Francisco, California San Francisco Marine Hospital (1853–1912), San Francisco, California Sonoma Developmental Center (1891–2018), Eldridge, California Stockton State Insane Asylum (1853–1996), Stockton, California Sunshine School (1937–1970s), San Francisco, California
Colorado
Woodcroft Hospital and School for Feeble Minded Children (also known as Woodcroft Sanitorium; 1896–1917), Pueblo, Colorado
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 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) State schools, US (for people with disabilities) Training school (United States)
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