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Intellectually disabled twice as likely to live in hardship

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Next Tuesday the IHC - which advocates for the rights, inclusion and welfare of people with intellectual disabilities will offiicially launch its new report entitled The Cost of Exclusion.

Ahead of that launch IHC advocate Shara Turner has come into the Wellinton studio to speak to us.

The report reveals that people with an intellectual disability are twice as likely to live in hardship or severe hardship in this country.