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| Table 204.50a. | 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: 2016-17 |
| Type of disability | Total1 | 3 to 5 years old2 | 6 to 21 years old2 | 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 | 6,802,402 | 533,166 | 232,689 | 3,968,599 | 2,009,690 | 3,374,045 | 1,219,376 | 1,679,626 | 174,486 | 20,525 | 87,724 | 247,278 |
| Autism | 661,319 | — | — | 489,699 | 93,634 | 347,629 | 94,428 | 147,067 | 38,648 | 1,673 | 4,986 | 26,909 |
| Deaf-blindness | 1,432 | — | — | 677 | 587 | 779 | 182 | 342 | 55 | 3 | 21 | 50 |
| Developmental delay | 445,906 | — | — | 108,149 | 45,690 | 230,444 | 81,354 | 89,459 | 14,449 | 1,532 | 8,886 | 19,795 |
| Emotional disturbance | 348,433 | — | — | 247,812 | 92,156 | 179,575 | 85,323 | 57,762 | 3,385 | 832 | 4,681 | 16,874 |
| Hearing impairment | 75,145 | — | — | 35,200 | 30,638 | 34,267 | 10,238 | 22,705 | 4,281 | 394 | 813 | 2,451 |
| Intellectual disability | 430,983 | — | — | 236,648 | 170,806 | 184,391 | 111,369 | 104,718 | 11,111 | 1,469 | 5,383 | 12,552 |
| Multiple disabilities | 132,164 | — | — | 76,605 | 47,620 | 72,446 | 23,172 | 25,303 | 4,500 | 600 | 2,006 | 4,200 |
| Orthopedic impairment | 42,153 | — | — | 20,780 | 15,264 | 21,131 | 5,456 | 11,715 | 2,062 | 138 | 357 | 1,298 |
| Other health impairment3 | 955,360 | — | — | 662,742 | 268,734 | 544,899 | 174,569 | 171,259 | 14,033 | 2,376 | 10,203 | 38,027 |
| Specific learning disability | 2,318,179 | — | — | 1,385,116 | 889,968 | 1,022,667 | 449,512 | 693,624 | 35,656 | 8,705 | 35,005 | 73,509 |
| Speech or language impairment | 1,337,326 | — | — | 675,631 | 334,289 | 706,114 | 175,557 | 344,280 | 44,329 | 2,627 | 14,675 | 49,772 |
| Traumatic brain injury | 26,668 | — | — | 15,999 | 9,340 | 15,363 | 4,113 | 5,068 | 707 | 82 | 347 | 989 |
| Visual impairment | 27,334 | — | — | 13,541 | 10,964 | 14,340 | 4,103 | 6,324 | 1,270 | 94 | 361 | 852 |
| 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 | 9.7 | — | — | 12.3 | 4.7 | 10.3 | 7.7 | 8.8 | 22.1 | 8.2 | 5.7 | 10.9 |
| Deaf-blindness | # | — | — | # | # | # | # | # | # | # | # | # |
| Developmental delay | 6.6 | — | — | 2.7 | 2.3 | 6.8 | 6.7 | 5.3 | 8.3 | 7.5 | 10.1 | 8.0 |
| Emotional disturbance | 5.1 | — | — | 6.2 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 7.0 | 3.4 | 1.9 | 4.1 | 5.3 | 6.8 |
| Hearing impairment | 1.1 | — | — | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| Intellectual disability | 6.3 | — | — | 6.0 | 8.5 | 5.5 | 9.1 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 7.2 | 6.1 | 5.1 |
| Multiple disabilities | 1.9 | — | — | 1.9 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 1.7 |
| Orthopedic impairment | 0.6 | — | — | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| Other health impairment3 | 14.0 | — | — | 16.7 | 13.4 | 16.1 | 14.3 | 10.2 | 8.0 | 11.6 | 11.6 | 15.4 |
| Specific learning disability | 34.1 | — | — | 34.9 | 44.3 | 30.3 | 36.9 | 41.3 | 20.4 | 42.4 | 39.9 | 29.7 |
| Speech or language impairment | 19.7 | — | — | 17.0 | 16.6 | 20.9 | 14.4 | 20.5 | 25.4 | 12.8 | 16.7 | 20.1 |
| 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 | — | — | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Number of children served as a percent of total enrollment4 | ||||||||||||
| All disabilities | 13.4 | 19.8 | 9.6 | 17.1 | 9.1 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 12.6 | 6.8 | 11.1 | 17.2 | 13.4 |
| Autism | 1.3 | — | — | 2.1 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.5 |
| Deaf-blindness | # | — | — | # | # | # | # | # | # | # | # | # |
| Developmental delay | 0.9 | — | — | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 1.1 |
| Emotional disturbance | 0.7 | — | — | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| Hearing impairment | 0.1 | — | — | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Intellectual disability | 0.9 | — | — | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 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 | 1.9 | — | — | 2.9 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 2.1 |
| Specific learning disability | 4.6 | — | — | 6.0 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 1.4 | 4.7 | 6.9 | 4.0 |
| Speech or language impairment | 2.6 | — | — | 2.9 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
| Traumatic brain injury | 0.1 | — | — | 0.1 | # | 0.1 | 0.1 | # | # | # | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Visual impairment | 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 658 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 3- to 5-year-olds by sex are based on total public school enrollment in prekindergarten and kindergarten by sex. Percentages for 6- to 21-year-olds by sex are based on total public school enrollment in grades 1 through 12 by sex. Percentages for 3 to 21-year-olds by race/ethnicity are based on total public school enrollment in prekindergarten through grade 12 by race/ethnicity. For total public school enrollment by race/ethnicity, see table 203.50. | ||||||||||||
| NOTE: This table includes 2015-16 data for 3- to 5-year-olds in Nebraska and 3- to 21-year-olds in Wisconsin due to unavailability of 2016-17 data for children in those age groups served in those states. 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 December 17, 2018, from https://www2.ed.gov/programs/osepidea/618-data/state-level-data-files/index.html#bcc. National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2016–17. (This table was prepared December 2018.) |