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: 2014-15

	Total1	Age group and sex2				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	13
	Number of children served
All disabilities	6,555,291	514,193	221,603	3,837,863	1,924,124	3,350,084	1,199,743	1,531,923	161,250	20,257	86,226	205,980
Autism	575,879	—	—	429,390	79,782	320,202	80,563	116,616	32,010	1,551	4,340	20,599
Deaf-blindness	1,381	—	—	661	557	770	155	329	53	8	27	39
Developmental delay	419,488	—	—	99,296	41,998	221,626	78,649	80,053	12,252	1,683	8,484	16,742
Emotional disturbance	348,829	—	—	251,789	88,543	182,989	88,598	53,945	3,217	881	4,711	14,492
Hearing impairment	76,022	—	—	35,489	31,186	35,566	10,700	22,122	4,230	406	845	2,154
Intellectual disability	422,599	—	—	231,670	166,937	187,431	111,301	95,757	10,658	1,323	5,322	10,811
Multiple disabilities	131,996	—	—	76,719	47,147	73,639	23,923	24,266	4,192	527	1,968	3,492
Orthopedic impairment	52,113	—	—	26,954	18,263	27,526	6,389	13,942	2,193	184	420	1,490
Other health impairment3	862,214	—	—	597,191	242,060	511,300	157,688	139,447	12,297	2,318	9,698	29,475
Specific learning disability	2,278,019	—	—	1,381,106	851,681	1,041,045	451,709	645,376	35,019	8,344	35,013	61,605
Speech or language impairment	1,332,475	—	—	677,825	335,720	717,412	181,783	329,096	43,254	2,845	14,696	43,404
Traumatic brain injury	26,435	—	—	16,038	9,142	15,718	4,043	4,705	662	85	349	874
Visual impairment	27,841	—	—	13,735	11,107	14,860	4,242	6,269	1,213	102	353	803
	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	100.0
Autism	8.8	—	—	11.2	4.1	9.6	6.7	7.6	19.9	7.7	5.0	10.0
Deaf-blindness	#	—	—	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Developmental delay	6.4	—	—	2.6	2.2	6.6	6.6	5.2	7.6	8.3	9.8	8.1
Emotional disturbance	5.3	—	—	6.6	4.6	5.5	7.4	3.5	2.0	4.3	5.5	7.0
Hearing impairment	1.2	—	—	0.9	1.6	1.1	0.9	1.4	2.6	2.0	1.0	1.0
Intellectual disability	6.4	—	—	6.0	8.7	5.6	9.3	6.3	6.6	6.5	6.2	5.2
Multiple disabilities	2.0	—	—	2.0	2.5	2.2	2.0	1.6	2.6	2.6	2.3	1.7
Orthopedic impairment	0.8	—	—	0.7	0.9	0.8	0.5	0.9	1.4	0.9	0.5	0.7
Other health impairment3	13.2	—	—	15.6	12.6	15.3	13.1	9.1	7.6	11.4	11.2	14.3
Specific learning disability	34.8	—	—	36.0	44.3	31.1	37.7	42.1	21.7	41.2	40.6	29.9
Speech or language impairment	20.3	—	—	17.7	17.4	21.4	15.2	21.5	26.8	14.0	17.0	21.1
Traumatic brain injury	0.4	—	—	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
Visual impairment	0.4	—	—	0.4	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.4
	Number served as a percent of total enrollment4
All disabilities	13.0	19.8	9.3	16.5	8.7	13.4	15.4	12.0	6.5	11.5	16.6	12.8
Autism	1.1	—	—	1.8	0.4	1.3	1.0	0.9	1.3	0.9	0.8	1.3
Deaf-blindness	#	—	—	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Developmental delay	0.8	—	—	0.4	0.2	0.9	1.0	0.6	0.5	1.0	1.6	1.0
Emotional disturbance	0.7	—	—	1.1	0.4	0.7	1.1	0.4	0.1	0.5	0.9	0.9
Hearing impairment	0.2	—	—	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1
Intellectual disability	0.8	—	—	1.0	0.8	0.8	1.4	0.7	0.4	0.8	1.0	0.7
Multiple disabilities	0.3	—	—	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	0.1
Other health impairment3	1.7	—	—	2.6	1.1	2.1	2.0	1.1	0.5	1.3	1.9	1.8
Specific learning disability	4.5	—	—	5.9	3.8	4.2	5.8	5.0	1.4	4.7	6.7	3.8
Speech or language impairment	2.6	—	—	2.9	1.5	2.9	2.3	2.6	1.8	1.6	2.8	2.7
Traumatic brain injury	0.1	—	—	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	#	#	#	0.1	0.1
Visual impairment	0.1	—	—	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	#	#	0.1	0.1	#

—Not available.

#Rounds to zero.

1 Totals are based on overall counts of children by type of disability; they are not based on summing the counts reported for the individual racial/ethnic groups or the counts reported by sex. (Due to data limitations, summing the counts by disability type within each racial/ethnic group would result in a total overcount of 172 children. Because of missing data on type of disability by sex, summing the counts by disability type for males and females would result in undercounts.)

2 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 percent of all 6- to 21-year-olds served are excluded from this table because of missing data.

3 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.

4 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, 2016, 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," 2014–15. (This table was prepared October 2016.)