Prevention of mental handicap and developmental disabilities in South East Asia.

The National Population and Family Development Board, Malaysia, in association with Malaysian Paediatric Association and Commonwealth Association for Mental Handicap and Developmental Disabilities (CAMHADD) held a workshop in Kuala Lumpur in September 1986 on prevention, early detection, and intervention of childhood handicap. The main objective was to identify those problems for which practical programmes of implementations, with special reference to Malaysia and other South East Asian countries, could be initiated. The workshop was attended by 30 invited experts on mental retardation from South East Asia and other Commonwealth countries. During the two days various aspects of mental retardation were discussed and the following recommendations were made.