Hike in children registered on intellectual disability database

THERE has been an 8% increase in the number of children registered on the National Intellectual Disability Database in the past four years, a report by the Health Research Board reveals.

It also shows that three out of four of these children have not had their level of intellectual disability confirmed by the age of five.

While the number of children registered on the database increased from 1,429 in 2003 to 1,542 in 2007, the actual number of unconfirmed cases increased from 860 to 1,181 over the same period.