- Title: Out Of Sight
- Date: 29th March 1992
- Summary: THIS PROGRAMME REVEALS HOW VIOLENT AND BARBARIC MANY INSTITUTIONS FOR DISABLED CHILDREN WERE DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE CENTURY. AROUND 100,000 DISABLED CHILDREN WERE BROUGHT UP IN RESIDENTIAL INSTITUTIONS AT THIS TIME. SOME PHYSICALLY DISABLED CHILDREN - OFTEN THOSE WITH CEREBRAL PALSY - WERE WRITTEN OFF AS MENTAL DEFECTIVES AND SENT TO MENTAL HANDICAP HOSPITALS FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. THE MAJORITY THOUGH WERE OFFICIALLY CLASSIFIED AS BLIND, DEAF OR CRIPPLED AND WERE PLACED IN AN INSTITUTION SEGREGATED ACCORDING TO THEIR DISABILITY. THE PUNISHMENTS IN THESE INSTITUTIONS - LIKE SENDING BLIND CHILDREN TO COVENTRY - OFTEN EXPLORED THE CHILDREN'S DISABILITIES.
- Description:SERIES OF FOUR HALF HOUR PROGRAMMES ON THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF DISABILITY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:DOMINO FILMS
- Programme Episode:Episode 2
- Transmission Date:29/03/1992
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s