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.