1,256 Comments for Foxboro State Hospital

I wonder if it's still in print... I have a couple of colleagues who might benefit...

cubic messy nice shot

the kingdom of nature strikes back. hooray! :)))

maybe that window or window-like thingy above is the answer. maybe some kind of steamtherapy or just saunatherapy with very hot air or steam and the head outside was wether for preventing suffocating or just for the patients comfort of easy breathing and relaxing... donno, but thats whats in my mind. 8-)

oh wonderfull, nature is recapturing this place. :)))

weren't all the tables used for people stainless steel? easier to clean? awesome lighting tho.

oh, thank god
Meg, yor stepmom workd there, I hope?

Uh ho...Busted

Very interesting.

The windows must have have chips or cracks in them, that is the only way fern spores could have gotten hold in this room. If you look carefully while you are there you might see dandelions too, they could travel just about anywhere.

That book was one of the classics in the field. It was written in 1980 by McClennen, Hoekstra & Bryan, and was a curriculum for teaching social skills to people with severe intellectual disabilities. You could do an inventory to assess the person's current social skills and then there were actual programs to help teach and develop any needed skills. This started with basic skills, such as how to make eye contact, social smiling, etc., and then moved up the ladder of basic interaction skills that most of us learn naturally but many folks need help learning.

Mona,
i am certain that even "severly retarded adults" ( ugh, i loathe that wording.) are capable of reading, or at the least being read to.

If I were the photographer this one would be titled,
"OH SH*T!"

How could the "Severly Retarded Adult" read it to benefit from it? Ha Ha
I think the book should be called "How to teach social skills to severly retarded adults"
The real title comes off as a little silly!

The only thing that this could possibly be in my mind is a work table. I picture the door being locked and a nurse or whomever putting something through the opening. The table, I feel was either a work table or simply a table to hold many items.