Information, obtained from the annual survey of the Office of Demographic Studies, on the ethnic background of 44,000 hearing impaired students in special education programs in 1972-73 was related to other key demographic characteristics and to national and regional population figures. Data is presented for the categories of White, Black,…

Presented in approximately 315 tables are statistics on the number of handicapped public school pupils in the U.S. (1970) for each of nine impairing conditions as well as numbers of schools and teachers providing special instruction. Noted is collection of data from a survey sample of 2,000 local public elementary and secondary schools…

The report of the National Center for Health Statistics presents national estimates of the hearing levels of youths 12-17 years of age in the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States. These are based on individual monaural, puretone, audiometric test results of eight frequencies as obtained in the Health Examination Survey of…