I think not everyone understands that this film and others like it were not representing how things always actually were, but how the Departments of Health and other organizations thought they should be. They're meant to be instructional, and to show how much better things could be.

As mom of a 36 year old developmentally disabled man, I can say these little milestones are celebrated daily. He is now an adult who works a productive job in a grocery store that he loves, and they love him. He has friends and family that support him. He's witty and fun, loves justice and stands up for others. He doesn't take his disability too seriously. But it's a daily fight to get services from schools and staff who really care. YOU must be their advocate and educate yourself early on so you can be their social worker, teacher, case manager etc...

I've been watching tons of these old videos and some of them are so crazy lol I agree with the person above, this is sugar coated from what lots of families used to do.

I like to think most families treated their special children this way, but it didn't happen. So many of those kids were sent to institutions and abandoned. The infamous Willowbrook State School didn't close until 1987, so it was common to do this until fairly recently. I teach high school kids with special needs, and they're so full of love. This video made me feel pretty sad, thinking how many loving kids have been sent away by their families.

So cool to see OT mentioned in a video from 1960!

This seems pretty advanced, knowledgeable, and sensitive for 1960.

I've been watching too much of these vintage videos lmao

Ok but little Mark trying to blow to torch out like like a candle was very cute.

I can't imagine the psychological effects of taking a child from their home and putting them in an institution =(

Love the older raw videos, they had nothing to hide or fake. Thank you, enjoying every video.💜

I was a caregiver, as my first real job. I assisted with daily living for folks who are now in homes in the community, fresh out of institutions. I loved that job. My first client was a woman who was the age I currently am, 42. She had just moved out of the institution where she had been since age 5. I loved her so much. She was not an easy client by any means, labled a "behavior case." She was alway "having behaviors." I absolutely hated the terminology used. Everything we do or dont do is a behavior, for example. She was taken from her family by force after injuring a younger sibling, she flipped the craddle over, with the newborn inside. They took the baby to the hospital. Thankfully the baby was fine but of course the hospital had questions. When they encountered the person who became my client, they insisted there was no other choices but an institution. Her family was very poor and was from, what was then, an extremely rural, mountainous Appalachian community. Because of lawsuits due to abuse and neglect, our state institutions all closed down. That was good for so many patients but not all. My client always want to "go home," back to the institution. Thats all she had known since age 5. I would call her mother on the phone and update her from time to time. She always cried and never stopped missing her "baby" and wanting her home. By then mother was elderly, in bad health and certainly could not have cared for her daughter when she was having violent behavioral issues. I always felt so bad for them both. She never wanted to be separated from her child and her child no longer recognized family relationship, if she ever had. She had been born fine and the problem developed when she started school and got her required immunizations, according to her records. I taught her to tie her shoes when she was 42 years old. One of my favorite memories. I knew people of the years who worked with her. So even after I left that job, 3 years later, I was still able to check on her. She died about 6 years ago. It broke my heart. Her mother had been long gone by then. I hope theyre finally reuinited now. Sorry, i wrote a novel there. This brought back a lot of memories.

Don’t be fooled as this film does not show what the norm was for this time because most kids born disabled were institutionalized until the late 70s or early 80s when they slowly started fading them out. However, my grandmother had a sister who was mildly intellectually disabled born in 1948 and was kept at home. In her elementary years she was homeschooled by a special teacher that came to the house and in high school she actually went to a regular school with a special class. She ended up moving to a group home when she got older and worked as a seamstress until she died in 2012.

You know, until i watched this video i never really thought about how difficult buttons and socks would be for someone with disabilities. Wouldnt something with bigger buttons be easier? Also, did anyone else have a very real urge to clap when little Mark managed his own britches?

iam glad that this story had a happy ending i have a disability too and i had to go to a school for a while they treated me great there i hated public school because they were assholes maybe iam bitter but i hope other people like me have a better time then i had

The Lil boy Mark is so adorable.

does anyone else think a few of these kids might have been misdiagnosed? a few of them didnt have the typical look

I used to work in a home where the very young children were all invalids and I thought it was sad that very few parents came to visit their children. I’ve worked a lot with young kids who have various issues because it’s rewarding. I loved the end of this when the boy was able to dress himself (for the most part).

I am actually impressed. I thought things were quite a lot worse than this at the time this represented.

my parents were violently opposed to the idea that one son was mentally ill and the other son is simple minded. so by the time my needs were there...school knew-dont offer

Damn have a little faith in your kid

Thank God we have come a long way since the old days !!!!!

LOVE that I just typed in “Retarded” in the search bar and the FIRST THING that pops up is “The University of Oklahoma” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 #gopokes

Well done. 🏆!

Infants and toddlers can't tell you the alphabet or do math problems. This video is pretty accurate on how we assess infants and toddlers today by doing a neuro checks and see if they hit their developmental milestones on time. Even if that is hampered at first, and the child doesn't have a genetic disability, he can overcome the lagging milestone. He may be hard of hearing, a preemie, have tight muscled or tendons, eyesight problems. all kinds of stuff. So really, except by putting him in a home, and using politically incorrect wording, this is kinda how it goes. Although sometimes the mental impairment isn't seen even nowadays until as a toddler or kindergarten.

The title sounds like a summary of every Julia Roberts RomCom

Do we still have nurses like this?

I'm glad huge institutions for people like this have mostly closed. Most public schools now offer classes for intellectually disabled kids, and most live with family and go to a group home as adults. It's a lot more humane now

Guys history is history deal with it.

They say this video is the early 1960s. I say it really is the early 1950's.

I wonder what ever became of these kids.

Really good actually.

why are you on here if youre going to be critical??

nice

They were forgotten

pink, faded Eastman Color

Pls remake this video but have Borat say that word every time it comes up...that one word...

The doctors told moms to forget about their kids and put in an institution

😊 god bless him.

🙏

Wow I don’t know what I just watched (nods in silence)

God, that title tho

I will there is no more retarded word I got so many times

Gods favorite kids

Back in the mid 60s i had a younger sibling who was 7, i was 9 he had a mental age of 1 and mom had him in cloth diapets and rubber pants. Plus she had him in a playpen. I wet the bed later on it was due ro a medical issue but the Dr. Said i was lazy. His wife a nurse then took off all my clothes and she pinned me up in t😢hick diapers and 😢rubber pants. Then ca🎉r🎉r😅ied me to the waiting room and other women said look at the b8ig bab😮y patting my bottom. Mom had m🎉e playing outside wi😢th m😮y b8rorher in just our d😅iapers like 2 babies. She kept me in diapers u😅p until age 13. My brothe😢r was still in them. He later passed away sadly.

So happy we've evolved from some of these views

There were no right to an education for the kids

By themselfs. I love incontineces ward in nursing homes & even locked wards. But I prefer woman over men as caretakers. But much more loving care. Less psychatric meds & less depression.

Sophia Maria age 30 I m mentally challenged woman! But I believe that only God help us do all things but only though Christ strengthening us to do them !

A bit long? Cool but after about 11mins.....

i'm forest gump

🤔

Hypers

Hey Siri, Define cretinism. This is a formal offensive term to describe foolishness or stupidity.

that not what happened at all they would tell the family to put the child in a home and walk away. the is bs. that is not what happened at all

I would say. the classic films I see. The woman was a lot more fenimen.

Nah they're presidential like Joe Biden

Can't execute them....

OH MY GOD- CHANGE THE TITLE OF THE VIDEO PLEAASE-

St John 3:16! 💓 JESUS is coming again SOON! HALLELUJAH!

I hated when the narrator said retarded! We say special needs or intelleuctal disability or developmental disability or Down Syndrome.