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"Bad Things": Child Abuse and the Nineteenth-Century Spanish National School for the Deaf and Blind
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 8, Number 2, Winter 2008
- pp. 181-210
- 10.1353/sls.2008.0002
- Article
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This article draws on contemporary insights from the fields of psychology, sociology, and social welfare to analyze the potential threats of abuse posed by residential schools for deaf and blind children. It also examines an alleged episode of sexual abuse at the nineteenth century Spanish National School for deaf and blind children; the alleged perpetrator of these acts was director and professor Miguel Fernández Villabrille.