title: List of institutions providing Special Education facilities
text: # List of institutions providing Special Education facilities
  
  This is a list of historic institutions for mentally disabled people.
  
  ## Canada
  
  * Child and Parent Resource Institute, London, Ontario
  
  ## United States
  
  * Southbury Training School, 1930s, Connecticut
  * Iowa Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, 1876, Iowa
  * Pineland Farms, 1908, Maine
  * Crownsville Hospital Center, Maryland
  * 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
  * The School for the Feeble-minded, Laconia, New Hampshire
  * 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
  * 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
  * Fairview Training Center, 1908, Oregon
  * Elwyn Training School, Media, Pennsylvania, founded 1852 by Alfred L. Elwyn
  * Pennhurst State School, Pennsylvania
  * Grafton State School, Now Life Skills and Transition Center, North Dakota
  * School for the Feeble-Minded and Colony for Epileptics, Faribault, Minnesota
  