Scope and Content: The Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children conducted at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1848 was incorporated by Massachusetts as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth in 1850.  It was renamed Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in 1883 and Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925. –As a residential treatment center and educational facility for mentally retarded persons in Massachusetts, the Walter E. Fernald State School is responsible for providing diagnostic services for its clients.  In fulfilling this function, the school and its immediate predecessor administered psychometric tests measuring client mental age and intelligence quotient (IQ) to assist in diagnosis and treatment.  Psychometric test files, containing completed record sheets for the Stanford revision of the Binet-Simon tests (and predecessors), were created for each client tested.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by client
Restrictions: Mental retardation client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123B, s 17. For conditions of access consult repository
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