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FROM the moment Tracy was born, Arthur and Claudia Albertsen of Chicago knew something was wrong. The doctor kept saying that delivery had been normal; nurses, who usually bustle cheerfully around a new mother, were strangely silent. Says the mother now: "Tracy came into the world not fully completed. She is literally missing part of her brain." The victim of a chromosomal abnormality, Tracy suffers from what doctors call "profound" mental retardation. At 21 months, she can neither walk nor feed herself, nor say the few words that most children her age have begun to utter. Her life expectancy...
...Tracy Albertsen and the Leonard boys represent two of the faces of mental retardation. Children like Tracy owe their affliction to detectable organic imperfections; those like the Leonards suffer from retardation of uncertain origin. Together they constitute a wrenching problem for all segments of society. According to the President's Committee on Mental Retardation, 3% of the population under the age of 65 -close to 6,000,000 Americans-suffer some degree of retardation. Every five minutes in the U.S. a child is born who will eventually be classified as retarded...
...first group consists mainly of people rated as severely or profoundly retarded-those with IQs ranging from 30 down. Usually these people, like Tracy Albertsen, have clearly detectable physical flaws. Some suffer from chromosomal abnormalities, such as Down's syndrome, or mongolism. Others have genetic problems such as phenylketonuria (PKU), a condition caused by lack of an essential enzyme. Still others acquire congenital infections like syphilis or are affected by German measles contracted by the mother...
...James Albertsen Velde '26 of Pekin, Illinois, was yesterday appointed second assistant soccer manager after a seven week competition. Velde prepared at Exeter Academy and was manager of the last year's Freshman team...
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