are, however, changing and the population of people with intellectual disabilities increased
by 53% over the 35 year period 1960-95, which equals 1.2% per year. 1 A further 11 …

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The profile of disabled children in the United Kingdom is changing. More disabled children
and young people live in the UK than ever before (about 770 000 according to criteria …

Over the past 20 years we have witnessed the closure of large residential hospitals for
adults with mental handicap and an exodus from these institutions into community care. This …

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Objectives: To test the association between childhood IQ and mortality over the normal
human lifespan. Design: Longitudinal cohort study. Setting: Aberdeen. Subjects: All 2792 …

The Bristol inquiry has put children at the heart of the public's agenda on health. This
contrasts with the seemingly low position of children on the Westminster government's own …

Cerebral palsy describes a heterogeneous group of permanent disorders of movement and
posture which are attributed to non-progressive disturbances in the developing fetal or infant …

Worldwide, visual impairment is increasing in prevalence: current data indicate that 284
million people have impaired vision, 1 10% of whom live in the developed world. In the UK …