Brooklands experiment
an experiment in England that studied the benefits of homelike and family living environments for children with severe intellectual disability, at a time when many such children lived in residential facilities. Sixteen children (average age 7 years; average IQ 25) moved from a residential institution to a large house called Brooklands, together with a staff of nurses, a supervisor, and an educator. A similar group of children stayed at the institution. At follow-up, the children who had moved showed improvement in their ability to use and understand language and in other skills, but the institutional group did not. [reported in 1964 by New Zealand psychologist Jack Tizard (1919–1989), working in England]