How many people with intellectual disabilities in ireland

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Sign up. Sign In. Don't have an account? The number of people recorded as having a disability is sensitive to what definition is used, and how it is measured. There were some differences between the two censuses in how disability was measured. Skip to main content. Home Disability overview Disability Statistics. Disability Statistics. For many people with disabilities the opportunity to take up employment is denied to them and they are trapped in unemployment, poverty, or both.

Some progress was made in Budget to increase supports intended to help people with disabilities access employment. However, sufficient progress has not been made and recent Budgets have begun to reduce these services. New policies, including that outlined above, need to be adopted if this issue is to be addressed successfully.

It is even more relevant today, given the growing employment challenges of the past few years. Moreover, a national register of people receiving or requiring intellectual disability services is maintained and updated annually. Aims: The prevalence rates from the census were contrasted with those from the register along with variations in prevalence across the 26 counties of Ireland. Methods: and Census of Population prevalence per for children aged years and adults 20 years and over stratified by the 26 countries were contrasted with similar prevalence in the national register.