His treatment also included practical instruction — how to dress, use the bathroom, brush his teeth — and something called ward school, which resembled what we’d now see as basic daycare activities. Some aspects of the hospital school didn’t fit the common notion of either a hospital or a school, however. As Bill grew from toddler to teenager to young adult, attitudes in the world outside the hospital school were changing. Parents began demanding services in the community instead of the hospital school. He died in 1995 of liver failure caused by chronic hepatitis B he contracted back when he was a hospital school patient rather than a regional centre client.

Source: The Star October 13, 2019 07:41 UTC