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Table 109. Number of students with disabilities exiting special education, by basis of exit, age, and type of disability: United States and outlying areas, 2000-01

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                                  |  Total  | Gradu- | Received  |Reached|No longer| Died | Moved, | Moved,  |Dropped
    Age and type of disability    | exiting |  ated  | a certi-  |maximum|receives |      | known  |  not    |out\2\
                                  | special |  with  | ficate of |age\1\ | special |      |   to   |known to |
                                  |education|diploma |attendance |       |education|      |continue|continue |
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                1                 |    2    |   3    |     4     |   5   |    6    |  7   |   8    |    9    |  10
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            Age group             |         |        |           |       |         |      |        |         |
14 to 21 and over ................| 582,791 |173,523 |    33,427 | 5,959 |  70,448 |1,791 |148,031 |  59,940 |89,672
  14 .............................|  64,541 |     17 |        29 |     5 |  15,438 |  245 | 34,655 |  10,897 | 3,255
  15 .............................|  71,433 |     77 |        34 |     4 |  16,583 |  312 | 35,087 |  12,219 | 7,117
  16 .............................|  81,222 |  1,170 |       213 |     8 |  14,995 |  337 | 32,715 |  12,743 |19,041
  17 .............................| 121,070 | 42,432 |     4,668 |    48 |  12,790 |  336 | 25,024 |  11,194 |24,578
  18 .............................| 144,146 | 79,878 |    12,914 |   777 |   7,390 |  262 | 13,831 |   7,293 |21,801
  19 .............................|  66,264 | 37,095 |     8,789 |   418 |   2,298 |  137 |  4,576 |   3,258 | 9,693
  20 .............................|  19,258 |  8,286 |     3,418 |   904 |     620 |   77 |  1,450 |   1,429 | 3,074
  21 and over ....................|  14,857 |  4,568 |     3,362 | 3,795 |     334 |   85 |    693 |     907 | 1,113
                                  |         |        |           |       |         |      |        |         |
      Type of disability for      |         |        |           |       |         |      |        |         |
   14- to 21-year-olds and over   |         |        |           |       |         |      |        |         |
All disabilities .................| 582,791 |173,523 |    33,427 | 5,959 |  70,448 |1,791 |148,031 |  59,940 |89,672
  Specific learning disabilities .| 340,511 |117,645 |    14,813 | 1,558 |  41,069 |  580 | 79,863 |  33,692 |51,291
  Mental retardation .............|  67,062 | 16,735 |    11,820 | 2,472 |   2,729 |  380 | 16,536 |   5,791 |10,599
  Emotional disturbance ..........|  94,794 | 15,032 |     2,342 |   579 |   8,038 |  169 | 34,806 |  13,721 |20,107
  Speech or language impairments .|  23,267 |  4,685 |       579 |    97 |  10,582 |   32 |  3,734 |   1,673 | 1,885
  Multiple disabilities ..........|   9,686 |  2,742 |     1,184 |   652 |     420 |  249 |  2,678 |     775 |   986
  Other health impairments .......|  27,763 |  8,815 |       905 |   107 |   5,691 |  202 |  6,351 |   2,717 | 2,975
  Hearing impairments ............|   6,503 |  2,747 |       604 |    76 |     605 |   14 |  1,340 |     517 |   600
  Orthopedic impairments .........|   5,882 |  2,295 |       403 |   123 |     775 |  101 |  1,107 |     441 |   637
  Visual impairments .............|   2,498 |  1,161 |       170 |    35 |     219 |   25 |    516 |     178 |   194
  Autism .........................|   2,563 |    740 |       422 |   215 |     157 |   15 |    649 |     216 |   149
  Deaf-blindness .................|     182 |     54 |        27 |    10 |       7 |   10 |     44 |      17 |    13
  Traumatic brain injury .........|   2,080 |    872 |       158 |    35 |     156 |   14 |    407 |     202 |   236
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\1\The upper age mandate for providing special education and related services as defined by state law, practice, or court order.
\2\Dropped out is defined as the total who were enrolled at some point in the reporting year, were not enrolled at the end of the report year, and did not exit through any of the other bases described. This category includes dropouts, runaways, GED recipients, expulsions, status unknown, and other exiters.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2002, and unpublished tabulations. (This table was prepared July 2003.)


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