The State Psychological Clinic carried out psychological assessments of children who were about to be adopted.
Children diagnosed with an intellectual disability often did not have one. Challenging behaviour, inadequately managed physical disabilities such as deafness, educational disadvantage, an institutional upbringing, and poverty, neglect or abuse could all lead to this diagnosis.
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The Find & Connect Support Service can help people who lived in orphanages and children's institutions look for their records.
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21 July 2023
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