#intellectual disability
Differently-abled people make up 16 percent of the global population, with approximately 1.3 billion individuals living with substantial disabilities, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In Egypt alone, this figure includes around 12 million people, constituting 8.8 percent of the population, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported. In Article 2 of Law No. 10 of 2018, a person with a disability is defined as “any individual with a total or partial impairment—be it physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory—that…