The East Moriches-based organization takes care of 700 mentally retarded adults.

Metatherapy, one of the largest agencies of its kind in this area, runs rehabilitation and therapy programs for 63 mentally retarded adults.

Now age 25, she lives in a group home for mentally retarded adults.

Across town, neighbors are protesting the establishment of several group homes for mentally retarded adults.

There are 12,000 retarded adults on New York State waiting lists.

And it came from two mentally retarded adults performing in the annual talent show of the Community Living Corporation.

She took a test at the airport with two other mentally retarded adults who train at the Brooklyn bureau.

Others in the field say that the trial could set back their efforts to move mentally retarded adults into the mainstream.

Two studies of mentally retarded adults living in institutions found that 21.8% and 25.8% of these groups suffered from pica.

The Southbury Training School opened in 1940 and is now the state's only institutional home for mentally retarded adults.