Parents of children with severe disabilities must provide round-the-clock supervision and care.

He checked with his desk sergeant and confirmed that Barr was sleeping peacefully, in a cell on his own with round-the-clock medical supervision.

Nevertheless, there are about 5,000 fewer beds in state psychiatric hospitals now than when Mr. Pataki took office, and only a few hundred additional community slots that provide both shelter and round-the-clock supervision.

Dr. Sacco said sleep-away camps could be either "social war zones" or the ideal place for a culture change because of the intense experience of living together, under round-the-clock adult supervision, for an extended time.

Instead, they rent a hotel room for him and his two siblings, with color cable television, air-conditioning, a telephone, room service and round-the-clock supervision.

They require either assisted living in group homes or round-the-clock supervision in other settings.

She was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital, where a team of doctors determined that she did not need round-the-clock supervision, Daphne Lawrence, a hospital spokeswoman, said.

Now 92, de Kooning is under round-the-clock supervision at his Long Island home.

Mira Martincich, the athletic director for the Roslyn schools, said the answer may be round-the-clock supervision on overnight trips.

But state law allows for a group home to be barred from a neighborhood only if there is an identical one - in this case a home for four to eight adults with round-the-clock supervision - nearby.