Disability prevalence and trends

This report updates and refines prevalence estimates of five main disability groups in Australia - intellectual, psychiatric, sensory/speech, acquired brain injury and physical/diverse. The groups are defined and explained in terms of Australian and international definitions of disability, and of available Australian statistical data.Recent trends in the reported prevalence of disability are critically reviewed and changes in population patterns of disability prevalence in Australia are examined.

ISSN 1444-3589; ISBN 978 1 74024 336 0; Cat. no. DIS 34; 212pp.; $25.00