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…

Details the story of Patricio Garcia, a Deaf student at the Spanish National School for Deaf-Mutes and the Blind, who blew the whistle on physical abuse used at the school, specifically in the case of a former student. The former student ran away from the school in 1876 after beatings and other cruel treatment, was returned, and then expelled in…