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South Africa needs to rethink how it measures intellectual and developmental disabilities – what’s lacking

By Lieketseng Ned, Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
Marguerite Schneider, Emeritus Associate Professor, Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, University of Cape Town

South Africa needs to take pragmatic steps to plug the shortcomings in the data that’s collected on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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