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U.S. Table 19

Health Conditions and Impairments Causing Disability in Children Under 18 Years of Age, 1992


Prevalence
All Conditions 4,974,000
Part I: Impairments 2,069,000
Visual impairments 83,000
Hearing impairments 190,000
Speech impairments 335,000
Learning disabilities 167,000
Mental retardation/Down's syndrome 786,000
Absence or loss 18,000
Paralysis 140,000
(Cerebral palsy) 99,000
Deformities 134,000
(Spina bifida) 17,000
Orthopedic impairments 144,000
Other and ill-defined impairments 69,000
Part II: All Diseases/Disorders 2,906,000
Infectious and parasitic diseases 47,000
Neoplasms 38,000
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders 72,000
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs 32,000
Mental disorders (excluding mental retardation) 440,000
Psychoses 25,000
Neurotic, personality, & other non-psychotic mental disorders 415,000
Diseases of the nervous system and sense organs: 375,000
Diseases of the nervous system 214,000
(Epilepsy) 123,000
Diseases of the eye 72,000
Disorders of the ear 89,000
Diseases of the circulatory system 63,000
Diseases of the respiratory system 1,174,000
(Asthma) 987,000
Diseases of the digestive system 70,000
Diseases of the genitourinary system 33,000
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system & connective tissue 48,000
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue 61,000
Congenital anomalies 108,000
Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions 279,000
Injury and poisoning 66,000


NOTE: Total for All Conditions may be used to compute percentages (e.g., 83,000/4,974,000 = 0.017 = 1.7 percent of all conditions were visual impairments).
SOURCE: National Health Interview Survey, 1992. Reported in Disability Statistics Abstract #6: Mitchell P. La Plante and Dawn Carlson, U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.