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training school

formerly, a rehabilitation facility for children or adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities at which interdisciplinary teams of therapists and allied health care practitioners offered residential, health, training, vocational, and leisure services. Although such facilities attempted to provide homelike settings, this was seldom achieved in practice. Their use, once common, greatly diminished in the late 20th century. See also public residential facility.

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care of young

care of young

a manifestation of parental behavior or alloparenting in animals, usually stimulated by hormonal and other physiological changes when in the presence of offspring. These include the secretion of prolactin, which induces broodiness and parental feeding of young in birds and milk production in mammals.