In 2006, Mathijssen et al. described an adult male mentally retarded patient who had calcified pinnae and a neoplasm of the palate.

His dependents are a group of mentally retarded and physically disabled patients whose families either could not take care of them or refused to do so.

From 1988 to 1992, the state and Federal governments spent $2 million to care for 10 mentally retarded patients in a community home in Flushing, Queens.

But Mr. Sundram said that the commission had found no system-wide abuses in the state's public and private care for some 11,500 mentally retarded patients.

Three were charged with abusing mentally retarded patients and the rest with selling drugs to fellow employees.

These techniques are particularly useful for paediatric and mentally retarded patients.

The Clinton Justice Department has joined the effort to move mentally retarded patients out of large institutions and into community facilities.

Maine Times focused instead on matters that others had largely overlooked, including the juvenile detention system and the mistreatment of mentally retarded patients.

He established Anandanikatan, a hospital for the mentally retarded patients.

As part of deinstitutionalization, the state is also closing some of its seven developmental centers for mentally retarded patients in favor of group homes.