Intellectual Disabilities

intellectual disabilities: This childs final resting place is an unmarked patch of grass alongside hundreds of other anonymous grave plots at the shuttered Huronia Regional Centre, where people with intellectual disabilities were housed for more than a century, according to The Star. Many of those who died at the institution were buried with numbered markers to protect the privacy of their families. When the stones were removed to pave a path to a nearby group home sometime in the 1970s, the graves went from unnamed to unmarked altogether and In the end, finding where Child 1751 lies buried took a map and a measuring tape. decided to find Child 1751 as a way to tell the story of one child among the thousands who stayed at the former Orillia Asylum for Idiots, some for their entire lives. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.