Jedlička Institute

It was founded in 1913 by surgeon Rudolf Jedlička, and it is the oldest facility of its kind in the Czech Republic.

Jedlička's Institute was founded on 1 April 1913, by the Spolek pro léčbu a výchovu rachitiků a mrzáků v Praze ("Association for Treatment and Education of Rachitics and Cripples") in Prague.

Rudolf Jedlička, the chairman of the association, intended to improve the education of disabled people and integrate them to normal life, according to his own words "to turn beggars into taxpayers".

[2] In the 1920s, under the director Augustin Bartoš, the capacity of the institute was increased by building a new school.

[3] The founder of the institution, Rudolf Jedlička, donated to the school his own villa in Harrachov (resort in the Giant Mountains).