Sentence examples for retarded years from inspiring English sources

School was a challenge for the young Sorenson; a teacher told his mother he was mentally retarded (years later he discovered he was dyslexic).

"Don't bother me and make me listen for hours on end to the reading of text written at the intellectual level of a 7-year-old -- let me correct myself, a retarded 7-year-old," he said in a hearing last October.

"And don't bother me and make me listen for hours on end to the reading of text written at the intellectual level of a 7-year-old child, or rather, let me correct myself, a retarded 7-year-old".

But she has also been told that special therapies for her mentally retarded 6-year-old son may be eliminated.

Oliver Cruz, a mentally retarded 33- year-old with an I.Q. of 64, was one of two men executed on Wednesday in Huntsville, Tex.

But he cited his severe health problems and his mentally retarded 40-year-old son; Mr. Todaro, he said, had a very close relationship with his son and helped care for him.

As the mother of a severely autistic and retarded 36-year-old child, I know that as parents age and are less able to cope, they must face the additional stigma of "having to put their child in an institution" when they cannot entrust their adult child to a sibling's care and must seek residential placement.

While studying the genome of a retarded 5-year-old child, he noticed that the tip of chromosome 10 had broken off in all the cells.

This was a decade before Geraldo Rivera's exposés led to the closing of institutions for the retarded and 25 years before the mainstreaming of the disabled into communities.

In Virginia, Earl Washington Jr., a mentally retarded man, spent 17 years in prison after falsely confessing to the rape and murder of a 19-year-old mother of three.

In the 1950's the complex became an annex to the Rome State School for the Retarded, and about 30 years ago, a prison.