And they are an older group: people stopped sending their retarded children to institutions decades ago.

The city's mentally retarded children, it said, "have been especially hit hard" by the agency's failure.

Pregnant women who smoke are 50 percent more likely to have mentally retarded children, according to a study released today.

The chances are most of them are in schools for retarded children.

I know of other parents who rarely or never see their retarded children.

In the early years we did special pieces for retarded children.

We still run them, but now retarded children are a regular part of the show.

She could have the borderline retarded children take the regular state test.

In essence, the community is not concerned with the fate of our retarded children.

But as they get older, it becomes a lot more difficult for the mentally retarded child to keep up.