The uncle turns to the parents and says, " You never told me you had a mentally retarded child ."
6.
That gap " is not the difference between an Einstein and a mentally retarded child, " said study director June Machover Reinisch.
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"The primary medium for working with the retarded child is imitation, " says Robert J . Seibold, the Batavia school's longtime superintendent.
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"The lifetime care of a mentally retarded child costs about 10 million markkaa ( dlrs 2 million ), so we're not talking small sums here,"
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The Lams have no family history of disease, but Ann is older than 40; her risk of having a retarded child is at least one in 35.
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Chavala said that while ordinary people have a 1 percent chance of having a mentally retarded child, mentally retarded people have as high as a 70 percent chance.