Psychiatric illness and learning disability: a dual diagnosis
- 1 May 1995
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
- Vol. 1 (5) , 138-145
- https://doi.org/10.1192/apt.1.5.138
Abstract
The prevalence of moderate to profound learning disability is roughly 3 per 1000 and of mild learning disability about 3 per hundred (Abramowicz & Richardson, 1975). There are estimated to be more than 120 million people with learning disability worldwide.Keywords
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