832 Comments for The Ladd School

They tested on people with these.
Physically disabled people to see the effects if they could feel pain, or feel pain to the same extend as a non-physically disabled person.

u got one hell of a tan with that thing

the slab tub looks new

there that lone chair

remind me of the old drive in movies speker.

no lone chair this time motts?

The ladd school cemetery

Does anyone know where the cemetery is?

It has only been in the past 15 years or so that pediatric surgeons have been using anesthesia on any infants because they also thought that they "felt no pain," so don't get too excited about what people thought about in the MR/DD field 50 years ago - they thought the same thing about "normal" babies until just recently. Check out the following article that was in the New York Times as "recently" as 1992:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9E0CE1DC173CF931A35752C0A964958260

P.S. Do you know what the rate of abuse is in the community as compared to institutional facilities? Neither does anyone else, because you can't keep track of people as easily when they are so geographically disparate.

This is NOT a pitch for institutionalizing people by any stretch, it's a pitch for using the intellectual part of your brain as well as the emotional part. Read all of the introduction in which Motts states that he is quoting what is on the plaque at the Ladd School, rather than anything he might personally believe.

Are you kidding? Skillful and Compassionate employees?

They were HORRIBLE to these residents! Doing surgeries while they were awake because they were "Feeble minded" and couldnt feel any pain!
Do you know how many of these residents died from neglect? or abuse? And how many to this day are still scared from their experiences?

The employees at Ladd were awful, and horrible. They were far from how you're describing them

good eye debbie i didnt even notice that

session 9 art therpy any one want to meet upthere im in newport ri

thats a foot allrigjt

I grew up on the street where the back entrance connected... less than two minutes walking distance. I can say from personal experience... the place is *weird.*

Does anyone else see the foot in the bottom left corner? It looks kind of like a dress shoe.