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• 32 per cent (8,262 individuals) are in receipt of a full-time
residential service.
• 96.5 per cent of people (24,729) are availing of at least a one-day
programme. Of this group, almost 33 per cent (8,125) are in fulltime
residential placements and 20 per cent (5,028) are in receipt
of residential support services such as respite care.
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• 77 per cent (19,799) of people avail of one or more
multidisciplinary support service. The most commonly availed
of services by adults are medical, social work and psychiatry
services.
• There has been an increase in the number of people with
intellectual disability living full time in group homes within local
communities; this figure has more than doubled between 1996
and 2007.
1.6 Definitions and their meaning and usage
Intellectual disability is a term used to describe an incredibly diverse
group of people. There is agreement that intellectual disabilities
should be defined as a developmental difficulty involving significant
impairments of intellectual and social functioning/adaptive behaviour.
There are debates, however, about the degree to which all areas of social
functioning need to be impaired (Murphy and Clare, 2003).
A word of caution is needed in relation to the literature about people with
intellectual disabilities. Various terms are used to describe people with
intellectual disability, reflecting the differences in acceptable terminology
and different criteria used in various countries. These terms include
mental retardation, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities,
learning disabilities, learning difficulties and mental impairment. For the
purposes of this review, intellectual disability is used; when reporting
research findings the terminology adopted by the particular author(s) is
used.
Table 2 below outlines the main terms used in international literature.