Table 204.50.

Children 3 to 21 years old served under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Part B, by age group and sex, race/ethnicity, and type of disability: 2013-14

	Age group and sex1				Race/ethnicity
Type of disability	3 to 5 years old		6 to 21 years old		Total, 3 to 21 years old
	Male	Female	Male	Female	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Two or more races
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Number of children served
All disabilities	510,990	218,744	3,770,750	1,879,635	3,356,261	1,191,817	1,469,282	155,668	19,606	86,307	185,274
Autism	—	—	399,598	73,681	307,112	74,464	103,919	29,564	1,351	4,011	17,594
Deaf-blindness	—	—	680	582	832	166	345	59	10	22	34
Developmental delay	—	—	92,593	39,427	219,073	77,362	77,143	11,487	1,605	8,292	14,970
Emotional disturbance	—	—	256,362	86,710	186,308	92,141	53,121	3,208	931	4,851	13,299
Hearing impairment	—	—	35,822	31,093	36,443	10,876	21,895	4,218	424	820	1,956
Intellectual disability	—	—	232,560	167,692	191,858	113,791	92,664	10,611	1,246	5,454	9,823
Multiple disabilities	—	—	76,672	47,079	74,546	24,468	23,787	4,031	509	1,967	3,133
Orthopedic impairment	—	—	29,703	19,499	30,528	6,733	14,862	2,237	170	459	1,500
Other health impairment2	—	—	561,870	228,734	493,978	149,140	125,789	11,474	2,185	9,306	25,571
Specific learning disability	—	—	1,379,873	830,620	1,054,657	452,028	623,442	34,415	8,322	35,394	55,890
Speech or language impairment	—	—	675,197	334,488	729,813	182,318	321,543	42,525	2,662	15,029	39,949
Traumatic brain injury	—	—	15,974	9,063	15,937	4,032	4,554	667	84	339	783
Visual impairment	—	—	13,846	10,967	15,176	4,298	6,218	1,172	107	363	772
	Percentage distribution of children served
All disabilities	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Autism	—	—	10.6	3.9	9.2	6.2	7.1	19.0	6.9	4.6	9.5
Deaf-blindness	—	—	#	#	#	#	#	#	0.1	#	#
Developmental delay	—	—	2.5	2.1	6.5	6.5	5.3	7.4	8.2	9.6	8.1
Emotional disturbance	—	—	6.8	4.6	5.6	7.7	3.6	2.1	4.7	5.6	7.2
Hearing impairment	—	—	0.9	1.7	1.1	0.9	1.5	2.7	2.2	1.0	1.1
Intellectual disability	—	—	6.2	8.9	5.7	9.5	6.3	6.8	6.4	6.3	5.3
Multiple disabilities	—	—	2.0	2.5	2.2	2.1	1.6	2.6	2.6	2.3	1.7
Orthopedic impairment	—	—	0.8	1.0	0.9	0.6	1.0	1.4	0.9	0.5	0.8
Other health impairment2	—	—	14.9	12.2	14.7	12.5	8.6	7.4	11.1	10.8	13.8
Specific learning disability	—	—	36.6	44.2	31.4	37.9	42.4	22.1	42.4	41.0	30.2
Speech or language impairment	—	—	17.9	17.8	21.7	15.3	21.9	27.3	13.6	17.4	21.6
Traumatic brain injury	—	—	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
Visual impairment	—	—	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.4
	Number served as a percent of total enrollment3
All disabilities	18.9	8.9	16.4	8.6	13.4	15.3	11.8	6.5	11.2	16.5	12.3
Autism	—	—	1.7	0.3	1.2	1.0	0.8	1.2	0.8	0.8	1.2
Deaf-blindness	—	—	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Developmental delay	—	—	0.4	0.2	0.9	1.0	0.6	0.5	0.9	1.6	1.0
Emotional disturbance	—	—	1.1	0.4	0.7	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.5	0.9	0.9
Hearing impairment	—	—	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1
Intellectual disability	—	—	1.0	0.8	0.8	1.5	0.7	0.4	0.7	1.0	0.7
Multiple disabilities	—	—	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.2
Orthopedic impairment	—	—	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Other health impairment2	—	—	2.4	1.0	2.0	1.9	1.0	0.5	1.2	1.8	1.7
Specific learning disability	—	—	6.0	3.8	4.2	5.8	5.0	1.4	4.7	6.8	3.7
Speech or language impairment	—	—	2.9	1.5	2.9	2.3	2.6	1.8	1.5	2.9	2.7
Traumatic brain injury	—	—	0.1	#	0.1	0.1	#	#	#	0.1	0.1
Visual impairment	—	—	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	#	0.1	0.1	0.1

—Not available.

#Rounds to zero.

1 For 3- to 5-year-olds, no data are available on type of disability by sex. For 6- to 21-year-olds, data include only those children served for whom both sex and type of disability were reported. About 1.5 percent of all 6- to 21-year-olds served are excluded from this table because of missing data.

2 Other health impairments include having limited strength, vitality, or alertness due to chronic or acute health problems such as a heart condition, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, nephritis, asthma, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, epilepsy, lead poisoning, leukemia, or diabetes.

3 Percentages for students 3 to 5 years old by sex are based on total public school enrollment in prekindergarten and kindergarten by sex. Percentages for students 6 to 21 years old by sex are based on total public school enrollment in grades 1 through 12 by sex. Percentages for students of all ages (3 to 21 years old) by race/ethnicity are based on total enrollment in public schools, prekindergarten through grade 12, by race/ethnicity. For total enrollment in public schools by race/ethnicity, see table 203.50.

NOTE: Although data are for the 50 states and the District of Columbia, data limitations result in inclusion of a small (but unknown) number of students from other jurisdictions. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) database, retrieved September 25, 2015, from http://www2.ed.gov/programs/osepidea/618-data/state-level-data-files/index.html#bcc; and National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2013–14. (This table was prepared October 2015.)