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Mental Retardation

Handicapped Man Faces Homelessness After Financial Crisis Demolishes Trust Fund

Huffington Post | Zach Dorfman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Mental Retardation, Traumatic Brain Injury, Bureaucracy, Health Care Reform, Financial Crisis, Bearing Witness 2.0, Bearing Witness, Health Care, Business News

As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...

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J. Langdon Down: A Man, a Time, and a Syndrome

Dan Agin | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Down Syndrome, J. Langdon Down, Mental Retardation, Living News
Dan Agin

In England in 1866, an obscure medical superintendent of an asylum for idiots in Surrey, England, published a short paper in a London hospital journal. The author of the paper was J. Langdon Down.

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver's Legacy

Michael R. Gardner | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Special Olympics, Mental Retardation, Georgetown University, Sport Disabled, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies, Mentally Challenged Children, Mentally Retarded, Developmentally Disabled, Rockville Maryland Estate, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Madame De Gaulle, Politics News
Michael R. Gardner

In those days, mentally challenged children were largely out-of-sight, hidden away. The prospect of these youngsters succeeding at anything -- especially sports -- was viewed as preposterous.

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The Stimulus Package and SAT Scores

Anita Weinberg | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sat Scores, Poverty, US Poverty, Low-Income, Jobs, Obama Job Creation, Stimulus, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Lead Paint, Spending, Stimulus Package, Mental Retardation, Illinois, Economic Stimulus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Job Creation, Politics News
Anita Weinberg

Aside from the obvious health benefits, lead removal from homes would accomplish the what the stimulus seeks -- creating jobs and reversing the economic impacts for low-income families.

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Why is Ohio Retarded but Connecticut Isn't?

Kim Stagliano | Posted 09.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Tropic Thunder, Autism, Health, Ben Stiller, Farrelly Brothers, Mental Retardation, Civil Rights, Living News
Kim Stagliano

As a writer, and the mother of three girls with autism, I choose my words carefully when writing about people with disabilities.

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