Table 204.50.

Children 3 to 21 years old served under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Part B, by race/ethnicity and type of disability: 2011-12 and 2012-13

Type of disability	2011-12							2012-13
	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Two or more races	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	14	15
	Number of children served
All disabilities	3,436,115	1,196,695	1,355,780	147,704	19,203	88,675	160,458	3,396,133	1,189,148	1,406,536	150,913	20,343	86,884	180,268
Autism	274,355	61,628	77,714	24,592	1,151	3,418	12,491	292,713	67,760	91,192	26,980	1,238	3,723	14,786
Deaf-blindness	890	158	397	65	16	26	31	866	165	334	54	13	27	28
Developmental delay	215,164	73,250	68,045	10,578	1,806	7,830	16,465	212,872	74,060	69,300	10,364	1,775	7,702	25,739
Emotional disturbance	199,929	100,412	51,698	3,224	980	5,381	11,530	192,562	95,790	52,463	3,218	988	5,025	12,300
Hearing impairment	38,409	11,412	21,617	4,156	402	841	1,611	37,679	11,130	21,461	4,187	460	805	1,786
Intellectual disability	203,247	120,492	85,206	10,018	1,239	5,679	8,705	197,797	116,641	89,518	10,445	1,258	5,517	9,117
Multiple disabilities	76,726	24,901	22,483	3,681	471	1,952	2,772	76,039	24,974	22,594	3,872	510	1,971	2,839
Orthopedic impairment	33,919	7,430	15,875	2,289	180	534	1,489	32,539	7,069	15,139	2,236	186	486	1,472
Other health impairment1	465,223	134,232	102,785	10,083	2,032	8,771	19,740	478,940	141,714	114,078	10,704	2,109	9,065	22,197
Specific learning disability	1,118,435	464,337	591,664	34,192	8,064	36,988	49,281	1,085,488	455,428	605,684	34,359	8,871	36,200	51,333
Speech or language impairment	778,171	189,926	307,379	43,075	2,692	16,570	35,057	757,210	186,038	314,260	42,698	2,735	15,678	37,257
Traumatic brain injury	16,006	4,041	4,254	609	77	329	653	16,015	4,009	4,351	636	81	328	707
Visual impairment	15,641	4,476	6,663	1,142	93	356	633	15,413	4,370	6,162	1,160	119	357	707
	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	100.0	100.0
Autism	8.0	5.1	5.7	16.6	6.0	3.9	7.8	8.6	5.7	6.5	17.9	6.1	4.3	8.2
Deaf-blindness	#	#	#	#	0.1	#	#	#	#	#	#	0.1	#	#
Developmental delay	6.3	6.1	5.0	7.2	9.4	8.8	10.3	6.3	6.2	4.9	6.9	8.7	8.9	14.3
Emotional disturbance	5.8	8.4	3.8	2.2	5.1	6.1	7.2	5.7	8.1	3.7	2.1	4.9	5.8	6.8
Hearing impairment	1.1	1.0	1.6	2.8	2.1	0.9	1.0	1.1	0.9	1.5	2.8	2.3	0.9	1.0
Intellectual disability	5.9	10.1	6.3	6.8	6.5	6.4	5.4	5.8	9.8	6.4	6.9	6.2	6.3	5.1
Multiple disabilities	2.2	2.1	1.7	2.5	2.5	2.2	1.7	2.2	2.1	1.6	2.6	2.5	2.3	1.6
Orthopedic impairment	1.0	0.6	1.2	1.5	0.9	0.6	0.9	1.0	0.6	1.1	1.5	0.9	0.6	0.8
Other health impairment1	13.5	11.2	7.6	6.8	10.6	9.9	12.3	14.1	11.9	8.1	7.1	10.4	10.4	12.3
Specific learning disability	32.5	38.8	43.6	23.1	42.0	41.7	30.7	32.0	38.3	43.1	22.8	43.6	41.7	28.5
Speech or language impairment	22.6	15.9	22.7	29.2	14.0	18.7	21.8	22.3	15.6	22.3	28.3	13.4	18.0	20.7
Traumatic brain injury	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
Visual impairment	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.8	0.6	0.4	0.4
	Number served as a percent of total enrollment2
All disabilities	13.4	15.3	11.6	6.4	10.8	16.2	12.6	13.4	15.2	11.7	6.4	11.3	16.3	13.0
Autism	1.1	0.8	0.7	1.1	0.6	0.6	1.0	1.2	0.9	0.8	1.1	0.7	0.7	1.1
Deaf-blindness	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Developmental delay	0.8	0.9	0.6	0.5	1.0	1.4	1.3	0.8	0.9	0.6	0.4	1.0	1.4	1.9
Emotional disturbance	0.8	1.3	0.4	0.1	0.5	1.0	0.9	0.8	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.5	0.9	0.9
Hearing impairment	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.1
Intellectual disability	0.8	1.5	0.7	0.4	0.7	1.0	0.7	0.8	1.5	0.7	0.4	0.7	1.0	0.7
Multiple disabilities	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.4	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	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Other health impairment1	1.8	1.7	0.9	0.4	1.1	1.6	1.6	1.9	1.8	0.9	0.5	1.2	1.7	1.6
Specific learning disability	4.4	5.9	5.0	1.5	4.5	6.8	3.9	4.3	5.8	5.0	1.5	4.9	6.8	3.7
Speech or language impairment	3.0	2.4	2.6	1.9	1.5	3.0	2.8	3.0	2.4	2.6	1.8	1.5	2.9	2.7
Traumatic brain injury	0.1	0.1	#	#	#	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	0.1	0.1	#	0.1	0.1	0.1

#Rounds to zero.

1 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.

2 Based on the total enrollment in public schools, prekindergarten through 12th grade, by race/ethnicity. For total enrollment in public schools by race/ethnicity, see table 203.50.

NOTE: Data include only those children served for whom race/ethnicity and type of disability were reported. 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 Bureau of Indian Education and Puerto Rican schools. For these reasons, totals may differ from those shown in other tables. 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 October 3, 2014, from https://inventory.data.gov/dataset/8715a3e8-bf48-4eef-9deb-fd9bb76a196e/resource/a68a23f3-3981-47db-ac75-98a167b65259; and National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2011-12 and 2012–13. (This table was prepared October 2014.)