Psychiatric illness and learning disability: a dual diagnosis
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Psychiatric illness and learning disability: a dual diagnosis
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. Most adults and children with learning disability do not live in hospitals but at home or in some type of residential accommodation. Psychia...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1355-5146,1472-1481
DOI: 10.1192/apt.1.5.138