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[[image:Pennhurst 08.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Pennhurst State Hospital]]]]
 
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'''State Schools''' (Also known as '''State Training Schools''', '''Regional Centers''') are a collection of residential facilities run by states for people with developmental disabilities.  These institutions provided round-the-clock care for people with severe or profound mental retardation and people with mental retardation who are medically fragile or who have behavioral issues.
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'''State Schools''' (Also known as '''State Training Schools''', '''Boarding Schools''', '''Regional Centers''') are a collection of residential facilities run by states for people with developmental disabilities.  These institutions provided round-the-clock care for people with severe or profound mental retardation and people with mental retardation who are medically fragile or who have behavioral issues. State Schools are usually large with the academies, dormatories, and the detention centers. In some institutions, the children were abused.
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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*[[Kirkbride Planned Institutions]]
 
*[[Kirkbride Planned Institutions]]
 
*[[Sanatorium|Sanatoriums]]
 
*[[Sanatorium|Sanatoriums]]
*[[:Category:Single Building Institutions|Single Building Institutions]]
 
 
*[[United States of America State Hospitals]]
 
*[[United States of America State Hospitals]]
  

Revision as of 17:00, 7 October 2010

State Schools (Also known as State Training Schools, Boarding Schools, Regional Centers) are a collection of residential facilities run by states for people with developmental disabilities. These institutions provided round-the-clock care for people with severe or profound mental retardation and people with mental retardation who are medically fragile or who have behavioral issues. State Schools are usually large with the academies, dormatories, and the detention centers. In some institutions, the children were abused.

See Also