My paper will look at the ‘King Aleksander School for the Blind in Zemun’ in the interwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia. I have found this to be one of the leading institutes for disability care not only in the interwar kingdom, but also in the Southeastern and Central European region. Through a careful study of the directorship and institutional history of this school, I want to show how international and transnational ideas about disability care, rehabilitation, and training were received and elaborated in Yugoslavia and beyond. My intention is to show the extent and the limits of the ‘institutionalization’ of blind and disability care in the interwar kingdom. I want to ask how far pioneering institutes such as the school influenced and shaped disability care, given that the largest number of disabled people in Yugoslavia had no direct contact with the school itself. Did the undoubtedly pioneering work of the school influence broader discourse and practice about disability care throughout society, or did its influence remain marginal? And what would these conclusions tell us more broadly about the nature of disability care and the experience of disability in the interwar kingdom? My additional interest is to explore the international and transnational connections of the school, asking how far it represented a common approach to disability in Europe and especially the successor states of Central and Eastern Europe, or indeed the extent to which it is possible to speak of a common approach to disability care and disability more generally in interwar Central and Eastern Europe.