Intellectual Disabilities

Definition of intellectual disabilities: (if that link doesn't work :: click here  and put the words: intellectual disability in the SEARCH box)
Definition of intellectual disabilities

What is People First Language? 

Historical look at "treatments"
19th Century Psychiatric "treatments"
A Beautiful Mind: The History of the Treatment of Mental Illness

How Lobotomies Work
Lobotomies: (if the link doesn't work :: click here  and put the word: lobotomy in the SEARCH box)

Institutionalization
Photos from Pilgrim Hospital

Electroshock:  (f the link doesn't work :: click here  and put the word: shock therapy in the SEARCH box)
Electroschock therapy

Dorothea Dix: (if the link doesn't work :: click here  and put the word: Dorothea Dix in the SEARCH box )
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix and her works in North Carolina

Clifford Whittingham Beers   (if the link doesn't work :: click here  and put the word: Clifford Beers in the SEARCH box )
Clifford Beers



President Roosevelt's speech