The Long Road Home
A 22-part history of how people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the United States moved from large institutions to lives in the community.
1 of 22 published
Part 1 ·
Howe's 1848 school to teach, not confineIn 1848 Massachusetts paid $2,500 a year for three years to test whether Samuel Gridley Howe could teach 10 children with intellectual disabilities. This story follows that experiment, and how a school meant to teach and send children home drifted toward lifelong custody.