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107Whilst Highgate Park and Minda represent the oldest continuing Adelaideinstitutions that accommodate people with intellectual disability other institutionsemerged across the Adelaide metropolitan area during the twentieth century tooffer a range of services to people in their care, including accommodation.Although Bedford Industries commenced in 1920 as the CivilianTuberculosis and Cancer Comfort Fund it changed its name in 1945 to BedfordIndustries when it opened a woodwork shop at Glenelg for those recovering fromtuberculosis. Factory-size premises were developed on Goodwood Road,Panorama, in 1950, and a sewing business involving people with a disability wasstarted. By 1962 a number of other trade-type courses were added to theirtraining program. By 1976 various commercial manufacturing and craftsprograms were added to their business program. 285 In 1974 Balyana, a residentialcentre, was opened, 286 offering motel-style accommodation and shared houses.Since then further community-based residences for people with disability havebeen developed. Today Bedford Industries provides a range of employmentopportunities, training, day option and accommodation facilities for people with arange of disabilities, including people with an intellectual disability. 287The Strathmont Centre, located in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, opened in1971 following concerns first expressed in the 1950s by the South AustralianSuperintendent of Mental Institutions, H.M. Birch, that improved facilities for‘the retarded,’ including ‘retarded children,’ needed to be developed. Many suchchildren were being accommodated in psychiatric hospitals. 288 Initially, the centreprovided accommodation in villa-style accommodation on campus, seeking toapproximate a normalised form of community accommodation. The centre alsooffered training in self-care and social skills with a view to helping traineeseventually transition into community-based hostel accommodation. 289 By theearly 2000s Strathmont’s goal was to transition all of its campus-accommodated285 Disability, Information & Resource Centre. History of Disability in South Australia:Sheltered Workshops, Disability Information & Resource Centre, 2007 [cited February 282009]. Available from http://history.dircsa.org.au/1900-1999/sheltered-workshops/. sec.5,pars.1-4.286 ibid., sec.5, par.5.287 Disability, Information & Resource Centre. History of Disability in South Australia:Employment. Disability Information and Resource Centre, 2007 [cited February 28 2009].Available from ,http://history.dircsa.org.au/1900-1999/employment/ sec.6, par.1.288 Lewis, Managing Madness, 154.289 ibid.