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"The problem of the moron is a problem of education and training... feedblemindedness is not incurable...[and] the feedbleminded do not generally need to be segregated in institutions" - Henry Goddard, 1928

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"The problem of the moron is a problem of education and training... feedblemindedness is not incurable...[and] the feedbleminded do not generally need to be segregated in institutions" - Henry Goddard, 1928

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A theory that stated that the evolution of biological species came about by the process of natural selection, as well as social evolution

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Xenophobic Hysteria was influenced by the huge wave of immigrants. Society saw them as "threatening"

The Eugenics Movement advocated that "feeblemindedness" was hereditary and people with disabilities were to be blamed for society's burdens. Eugenicists believed that people with disabilities should not reproduce because they would "ruin the human species"

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Compulsory public school attendance laws were enacted, which led to teachers realizing the need for special training and classes for students who were "slow and backward"

Educators turned to institutions to aid in the training and teaching of students with disabilities.

By 1923, almost 34,000 students were in special education classes

During the mid-1920s, professionals began to see positive results of education and community for people with disabilities

The Almosts: A study of the Feeble-minded was a popular text book that referred to people with mental retardation as "almost human"

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                                       Sterilizations

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                                       Sterilizations

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Overcrowding resulted in Superintendents "Paroling" the Institutions and releasing higher functioning inmates, but first they were sterilized (Vasectomies and Tubal Ligations)

Sterilization was a way to control unfavorable genes and lineages and usually took place with out ones knowledge and consent

Buck V. Bell, is a sterilization case regarding a woman who was labeled "feebleminded".  It was later proved that her family tree had been concocted.

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People with disabilities were admitted to institutions based on the belief that they were "moral menaces" or a "threat" to society

Institutions were often over crowded and had poor conditions

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Walter E. Fernald, president of the AAMD, stated that institutional care was economical, justifying the building of more institutions

Dr Henry Goddard: Developed the term "Moron" using an adaption of the Binet IQ Test and explored the role of heredity in people with disabilities in his book called The Kallikak Family

Herman Spencer promoted Social Darwinism and the belief of "survival of the fittest"

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Mental Retardation, as well as mental illness were believed to be completely genetic

People with disabilities were seen as dangerous, immoral, and believed to be the cause of social ills

Terms:

Moral Imbecile

Feeble-minded

Defective Delinquent

Morons

Menace