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The Elderly Retarded

NPR's Tovia (TOE-vee-uh) Smith reports on a fight in Connecticut and a number of other states over how best to care for mentally retarded adults. A number of states have closed down their mental instituions, favoring instead smaller home based programs. But some in Connecticut defend the state's largest such institution, the Southbury Training School...saying it is not the cold cruel place critics charge it is.

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