How was the treatment of the Intellectually Disabled in the 1920s-1930s?

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If you can answer any or all of the following questions that would be so great:

1) What facilities and/or services were provided for the intellectually disabled in the 1920s-1930s?

2) What laws protected the intellectually disabled during this era?

3) Wat crimes could one who is intellectually disabled be held accountable for in the 1920s-1930s? 
In particular, consider violent crimes.

4) What was the everyday life like for one who was intellectually disabled in the 1920s-1930s?

5) How has the treatment of the intellectually disabled changed today? 

Thank you!!

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

5) They're no longer routinely sterilized by eugenics programs.  There are still court cases attempting to set restitution for this working through the system today.

kathleen · Answer

first off, there were no intellectually disabled people in 1920. they were retarded or crazy. Even people with seizure disoders. they were basically warehoused in places that mostly had pretty sad conditions. 

their lives were not too satisfying, today there are places for developmentally delayed people to learn skills, to make money albeit not a lot of money, places to help them live up to their potential no matter what it is.

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How was the treatment of the Intellectually Disabled in the 1920s-1930s?

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