The Regency Park Centre for Young Disabled was opened by the Crippled Children’s Association of South Australia in 1976. It replaced the Somerton Crippled Children’s Home and the Ashford House School. Children suffering from disabilities were accommodated in decentralised wards. The Centre was staffed by therapists and teachers from the State’s Education Department. In the…
The Somerton Crippled Children’s Home was established by the Crippled Children’s Association of South Australia at Somerton in 1939. It initially operated as a home for the after-care of children suffering from polio. From 1951 the Home began to care for children with other disabilities including neuromuscular diseases like multiple sclerosis and Huntington’s disease. In…
Seaforth Home was the new name given to Seaforth Convalescent Home at Somerton in 1946. Run by the government, Seaforth accommodated up to 100 children including, boys and girls, aged between 0 and 6, and girls up to the age of 18. Most were deemed to be destitute or neglected. The Home also took in…
The Bridge Industrial Home was the new name given to The Bridge Rescue Home in 1934. Run by the Salvation Army it was located in Gilbert Street, Adelaide, and provided accommodation and training for teenage girls. Girls living at the Industrial Home worked in a laundry that operated at the Home. In the 1970s it…
The Dew Street Cottage at Thebarton was opened by the Spastic Centres of South Australia, SCOSA, to accommodate children with disabilities in 1986. It was one of a number of cottage homes established when services at the Woodville Spastic Centre were decentralised. The Dew Street Cottage closed in 1991.
Albara Road Cottage was established by the South Australian Spastic Welfare Association (SASPWA), at Ingle Farm in 1982. Formerly a day centre for children with disabilities called Gullywinds it was opened as a cottage home for children with disabilities as SASPWA’s services at Woodvile Spastic Centre began to be decentralised. Albara Road Cottage was still…
The Lochiel Park Community Unit was the new name given to the Lochiel Park Boys’ Training Centre at Campbelltown in 1995. Run by the government, the Unit was also known as The Lodge. It accommodated State children with intellectual disabilities. The Unit closed between 2008 and 2013. The Lochiel Park Community Unit was the new…
The Minda Home for Weak-Minded Children was established in Fullarton in 1898. The Home was run by a management committee and provided accommodation and special training for children with intellectual disabilities. In 1911 the children were moved to new larger premises in Brighton and the name of the institution was shortened to Minda Home. Minda…
Estcourt House opened at Grange in 1894 as a Home for the elderly and children with disabilities. It was run by the James Brown Memorial Trust. From 1931 it became a convalescent home for children only. It was taken over by the Adelaide Children’s Hospital in 1955. It closed in 1978, when it became part…
Lochiel Park Boys’ Training Centre at Campbelltown opened in 1958. It was the first government institution to provide accommodation and training for boys with mild intellectual disabilities. Some children requiring longer term care were sent to Seaforth Home, and later the Strathmont Centre and Ru Rua Nursing Home. From the 1970s Lochiel Park also provided…
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