WAYNE COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL FOR THE INTELLECTUALLY CHALLENGED / PLYMOUTH STATE / MICHIGAN 61434
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- This 1968 black and white documentary about the Plymouth State Home and Training School in Northville, Michigan, whose methods help mentally retarded children lead richer lives. Produced by Dan Weisburd, the U.S. Rehabilitation Services Administration, narrated by Lorne Greene, and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. In some windows of a large brick building stand mentally retarded individuals. The children shown throughout the film are intellectually disabled (the film uses retarded). Two girls leave a wooded area. A girl pushes another in a wheelchair (:07-3:02). Inside the institution, a boy sits on a bed, holding his face in his hands. A teacher helps him choose a shirt. The mentally retarded students are engaged in activities: setting the table, sanding a birdhouse, walking a balance beam, using a walker, and jumping on a trampoline. A student shows her multi-media art picture of a girl (3:03-5:49). A doctor examines a boy’s head, opening his mouth to examine teeth (5:50-6:25). A boy playing a xylophone sings off-key. Students identify real fruits. A pretty retarded teenage girl practices with flash cards. Her parents and administrator discuss her condition (6:26-8:28). An attendant deals with the boys in the bathroom. Children raise their hands to say the dinner prayer. A boy prays (8:29-9:12). The students shop at a department store. Classroom students practice reading and writing letters home (9:13-11:04). Two nurses walk in front as the camera pans the institution. Swinging horses sit in high weeds. A group of retarded boys gather (11:05-12:06). A nurse chooses from a wall full of leg braces. A five-year old with a prosthetic arm wears leg braces and walks with crutches. Another lies on his stomach scooter; using his arms for propulsion. Students at a standing table play in sand. A non-mobile student on a mat wears a head helmet (12:07-14:40). A student uses an abacus. The children are taught self-sufficiency: eating, washing, and brushing teeth. A student hangs on to bars to practice walking (14:41-15:38). A student is examined by a doctor. His condition is discussed by the staff. He leaves in a wheelchair for a foster home (15:39-16:55). Blind retarded children cry. Some are encouraged to feel for objects, walk, work with objects, walk along a rope to find a bell, and feed themselves. A blind retarded teenager struggles with a teacher and rocks on his bed. He walks behind another child in a wheelchair singing. Children play the piano and guitars and sing “Yellow Submarine” in the music room (16:56-21:55). The severely and profoundly retarded shown live in the infirmary. A mat is full of children as a worker dresses one. Volunteers interact, reading “Alice in Wonderland” to one (21:56-23:30). Boys are taught to safely cross the street. Girls iron. A teacher presents flash cards to young students. A child learns to type with one finger. Children learn an interactive song (23:31-25:58). Students leave a school bus and explore the zoo. They walk in a group; a couple points at them, others gawk (25:59-27:00).
Wayne County Training School, alternately known as the Wayne County Training School for Feeble Minded Children or the Wayne County Child Development Center, was a state-funded institution for developmentally-disabled children, located in Northville Township, Michigan. Construction of the institution began in 1923, and it opened in 1926. Expansion on the property continued until 1930. The school closed its doors on October 18, 1974.. Most of the buildings were left abandoned until 1998, when the land was sold to constrictors and the school was demolished in Smarch. Today, a golf course and residential housing stand on the former school plot.
Official description of film: Describes and illustrates steps being taken by the Plymouth State Home and Training School, Northville, Michigan, to bring mentally retarded children out of the wilderness into the mainstream of life.
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I was abused orphan kid who grew up in so many home that was sent to lived at this center from 1971 to 1974 at Northville, MI till I was sent to Saginaw at St. Vincent's Home.. The center was not a mental hospital the place was turned into a group home for abused kids. Wayne County change the name to Wayne County Child Development Center but kept the labeling to get more money from the state. The center made us partake in the special Olympics every year when we were not even mentally challenge. We kids had emotional issue but not mentally impaired. It is a lot of false information in Wikipedia. This label followed me all of my life and now that I am 59 I need to tell the real truth about this issue. The Detroit Press wanted to know what happen to the mental patience's after the hospital had closed? For the record it was no longer a hospital nor there any mental disable people there when I was living there. How can any person write a story, film a story about this place with out talking to the adults who were kids living at that center. If I could sue the state and wayne county for misrepresenting us, I would sue the hell out of them. We are label for life of being mentally disable because of these people and this information is in my state and wayne county court records as a child. I thank god every signal day that I was sent to Saginaw and a live to see the age of 59yrs old. Be bless!
I found my grandma in a 1940 cencus record here she was 17 and had been there for at least 4 years. No one knows about here even. I always wondered why she was there. So many questions......
The institution featured in this film was the Plymouth State Home and Training School. It had zero to do with the Wayne County Training School. It was built on property that Wayne County owned in 1955. They took over all the property on the westside of Sheldon and along 5 mile road. Both institutions operated separately. Plymouth Stare home was run by the state. Wayne County Training School was run by the county. And opened on 1926. Even the title in the description is conplelty wrong. I have researched the WCTS for nearly 40 years. My work including a section on the PSHTS can be found at www.wacots.org The WCTS was not for retarded children at all. I have come to know many people that were there as well as family members of people that were there from as early as 1928. I have interviewed former employees and the daughter of one of the founders. I had been on the grounds dozens of times between 1982 and 1991. I was there when the PSH was still open.
@@earthwaterfall1498 She would not have been at the place in this film. It is incoorectly titled. This is the Plymouth State Home. Go to www.wacots.org for factual information about where she was.
Things like that happened back then. I know a woman that happened to. But there was more involved in her situation.
This is actually better than what is currently available for developmentally disabled people where I live. If those places were really like that, they were quite good. I would have liked to work there.
And the state institution should have had at least some beach balls and soft cars and trucks and other basic play things.
group homes are rife with abuse, neglect, and general denial of human and civil rights, the only difference is, they are disguised as normal hoses to promote growth and independence. but, sadly they are just mini institutions. and sometimes these so called group hoes are worse than the large institutions.
I was sent there from a abuse home in the 60's, better place than home was, I loved my grandmother Tinnie B. Conley to death RIP❤🍁🍁🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍃🌱🌱🌱🌱🍂🍂🍂
They did the same thing at mt. Carmel hospital when my ma had me locked up when i was a kid.
Plymouth State Home had nothing to do with the Wayne County Training School. Cottage 18 was part of the WCTS till 1956
I was one of the kids that lived at Northville in 1971 to 1974. I was born in Detroit hospital, taken from my mom when I was an toddler I was abused abandon by my mom. This place was not a hospital when I was there and it is a shame that the state/ wayne county child development center kept the title to get more money from the state. all the kids in the center were not mentally disable including me. we were made to participate every year with the special Olympics and for the life of me I could not understand the reason for that, I just figured that we kids was just there to help the special kids. I found out when I was an adult that we were the kids with special needs. We were orphan kids with emotional issues not mental issues. I grew up in so many group homes, foster home because my mom did not want me and my twin brother and two sisters. My dad visit me in every home that I was in, even when I was sent to St. Vincent's home in Saginaw, Michigan until the age of 18 when I graduated from Swan Valley High School. If I could sue the state and wayne county for labeling us mentally disable I would sue the hell out of them. I'm 59 and I still till this day have bad memory's from living in that center. It wasn't because I was miss treated, it was how the buildings look like a mental hospital. I read a article in the Detroit free press asking what happen to all of the kids from the psychiatric hospital? well here is one of the kids, a live and well. When I was sent to Saginaw, my Detroit records followed me labeling me mentally disable. I had emotional problems because I was a abuse child and I could not read or write when I came to Saginaw but that does not mean that I was mentally disable. Shame on the system! I pray one day that I could tell my story living at Northville/Wayne County Child Development Center in Northville, MI. Be bless
@@vernahoward6172 Please share your story. I run the wayne county training school website and database www.wacots.org this film is of the Plymouth State Home and who ever posted it titled it wrong.
My grandmother was here from 1935 to sometime in the 1940s. I found this out through ancestry. She's passed on long b4 I was born in 1983. I'd like to know more about the school the years she was in it. This seems like a churches up version of the school.
Now this is how intellectually disabled people should be worked with
The Plymouth State Home featured in this film was a disgusting place of terrible abuse. It was shut down in the mid 1980's over hundreds of documented cases. It was called the Plymouth Center for Human Development when it was closed. It was never called.the Wayne County Training School. The title is incorrect. This is the place featured in this film.wacots.org/other/pshts/index.html
This place doesn’t look as bad as pennhurst
quarantine brought me here covid19
You’re not the only one.
Play in 1.5 x speed it goes a lot faster lol
These people are smarter than democrats
Every republican attack is a confession. What's your retardation?
@@thinkbeforyouvote don’t have one because I didn’t vote for a corpse.