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The Syracuse State School was a residential facility in Syracuse, New York for mentally disabled children and adults. Founded in 1851 in Albany, New York as the ''New York State Asylum for Idiots'', acting upon a recommendation contained in the 1846 annual report of the New York State Asylum for Lunatics. The first director was Hervey B. Wilbur, a student of Edward Seguin (another of Seguin's students was Maria Montessori). In 1855 the facility moved to a new building in Syracuse where it was known as the ''New York Asylum for Idiots'' or the ''State Idiot Asylum''. Over the next hundred years the institution went through several name changes, including the ''Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children'', the ''Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives'', and finally the ''Syracuse State School'' in 1927. The school was closed in 1973 and the building was torn down in 1988. ==History== The ''New York State Asylum for Idiots'' was authorized by the New York State Legislature in 1851. Hervey B. Wilbur, M.D., was appointed the first superintendent and remained in that position for 32 years until his death in 1883. When the school first opened it was located in Albany, New York and the first pupils were admitted in 1851. The rules stated by 1888 that children between the ages of seven and fourteen, who were idiotic, or so deficient in intelligence as to be incapable of being educated at any ordinary school, and who were not epileptic, insane or greatly deformed, were allowed admittance by the superintendent, "with the advice and consent from the executive committee."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Syracuse State School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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