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Published: August 1, 2007, 8:37 pm

Tags: adulthood, living arrangements, siblings, family, arthur miller, asd, aspergers, autism, children, developmental disability, down syndrome, education, family, father, health, institution, mental retardation, parenting, pdd nos

100,000 children with intellectual and developmental disabilities were housed in 162 state facilities—some say as many as 200—-across the US in 1967. This was the “height of institutionalization,” notes today’ s CNN.com. The CNN.com story, Families get help finding loved ones lost in institutions, focuses on the efforts of some families seeking to reconnect with relatives who were sent to institutions many, many years ago. The ARC (Association for Retarded Citizens) has created the Find Family Registry to help families find relatives who were thought lost and to reconnect. Jeff Daly, who last saw his sister, Molly, when he was six years old in 1957, has made a film about his efforts to reconnect with his sibling, Where’s Molly?. Molly, born with a club foot and a lazy eye, was three when she was sent away to live at Fairview; the CNN.com story notes that “When she was around 2, records show, doctors amended her diagnosis to “profoundly

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