This period contains the greatest burst of building: homes, hospitals, schools, and asylums for those with disabilities. People with many differing diagnoses, from cerebral palsy to depression to brain damage, could find themselves committed to institutions for the insane or “feeble-minded.” Being in the wrong place at the wrong time -- an orphan, an unwed mother, a disruptive juvenile -- could land you in such a place as well. In this period, the highly organized community of deaf people came under attack in the mistaken belief that if deaf people associated mostly with one another they would marry and have more deaf children (not so). The educational establishment enforced the teaching of oral speech to integrate deaf people into the mainstream. |
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