A statistical profile of America as outlined by census statistics can provide the nation's school children with information on social history and current events which are soundly based on fact, not on fantasied opinions. (Author)

A survey of hearing imparied children and youth in the United States for the school year 1969-70 was conducted. One dimensional summaries of selected characteristics for 32,285 students enrolled in participating special education programs for the hearing impaired were presented. Discussion of data highlights was followed by detailed tables that…

Reported are data on exceptional children in U.S. schools, collected through a U.S. Office of Education survey (spring 1970), which sampled 2,000 of the 81,000 U.S. public schools having enrollments of more than 300 pupils. It is estimated that of the 44,389,000 total public school pupils enrolled at the time of survey, 4,752,000 or one tenth were…

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…

This monograph uses narrative, tables, and figures to present information on college freshmen with disabilities, based on data collected by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, a longitudinal study of the American higher education system involving data on some 1,300 institutions, over 7 million students, and about 100,000 faculty.…

This monograph presents information on college freshmen with disabilities based on data collected by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, a longitudinal study of the American higher education system that includes 469 institutions and 275,811 students. Section 1 presents highlights of the 1998 freshman survey and includes personal and…