MR / Herkimer, New York. Pine Grove Home. Woman with special needs (37) sits on porch swing in her ARC (Association for Retarded Citizens) residential group home. She has various medical conditions that are not unusual for persons with Down syndrome. They include: being legally blind: detached retinas in both eyes, eye surgery, now has no vision in one eye, and a clouded cornea and rapidly deteriorating vision in the other; scoliosis: she has had surgery and has a steel rod in her back, but spine is still not straight (is at 60 degrees); because of a small esophagus, which caused frequent choking on food, she had an endoscopy to stretch her esophagus. ID: AJ-gsf. MR: Bab3, Smi6 ©Ellen B. Senisi