Learning Disability Statistics

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The Numbers and the Tragedies

75% - 80% of special education students identified as LD have their basic deficits in language and reading; Source: National Institutes of Health
35% of students identified with learning disabilities drop out of high school. This is twice the rate of their non-disabled peers. (This does not include the students who are not identified and drop out); Source: National Longitudinal Transition Study (Wagner 1991)
50% of all students in special education in the public schools have learning disabilities -- 2.25 million children; Source: U.S. Dept. of Education 1992
60% of adults with severe literacy problems have undetected or untreated learning disabilities; Source: National Adult Literacy and Learning Disabilities Center 1994
50% of juvenile delinquents tested were found to have undetected learning disabilities; Source: National Center for State Courts and the Educational Testing Service 1977
Up to 60% of adolescents in treatment for substance abuse have learning disabilities: Source: Hazelton Foundation, Minnesota 1992
62% of learning disabled students were unemployed one year after graduation; Source: National Longitudinal Transition Study (Wagner 1991)
50% of females with learning disabilities will be mothers (many of them single) within 3-5 years of leaving high school; Source: National Longitudinal Transition Study (Wagner 1991)
31% of adolescents with learning disabilities will be arrested 3-5 years out of high school.